Interweaving photographs, concert programs, scores, and drawings with the texts of more than fifty interviews with family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues, Charles Ives Remembered is a vivid memory portrait of an enigmatic American composer, told in the voices of the people who knew him best. Charles Ives (1874—1954) was publicly an insurance executive but privately a composer whose eccentric works and paradoxical life would intrigue, perplex, and inspire generations to come after him. Moving from Ives's childhood and years at Yale to his business and musical careers, the memories and reflections assembled in this Kinkeldey Award-winning volume provide a multifaceted and humanizing view of an American musical icon.

Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History (Music in American Life)

Perlis, Vivian

History

University of Illinois Press

"Interweaving photographs, concert programs, scores, and drawings with the texts of more than fifty interviews with family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues, Charles Ives Remembered is a vivid memory portrait of an enigmatic American composer, told in the voices of the people who knew him best. Charles Ives (1874-1954) was publicly an insurance executive but privately a composer whose eccentric works and paradoxical life would intrigue, perplex, and inspire generations to come after him. Moving from Ives's childhood and years at Yale to his business and musical careers, the memories and reflections assembled in this Kinkeldey Award-winning volume provide a multifaceted and humanizing view of an American musical icon."

Charles Ives remembered: An oral history

Yale University Press

Includes 58 interviews with Ives's family, friends, neighbours, composers and performers such as Elliott Carter and John Kirkpatrick, and even Ives's barber. This oral biography recalls one of the most original American composers of the 20th century.

Charles Ives Remembered

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Da Capo Press

Aaron Copland is one of America's most beloved musical pioneers, famous for Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, and Lincoln Portrait, as well as the movie scores for "Our Town" and "Of Mice and Men," and numerous orchestral and chamber works. This candid, colorful memoir begins with Copland's Brooklyn childhood and takes us through his years in Paris, the creation of his early works, and his arrival at Tanglewood. Rich with remembrances from Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, and Nadia Boulanger, as well as a trove of letters, photographs, and scores from Copland's collection, this is one of our most vivid musical autobiographies, and an enduring record of an American maestro's explosively creative coming of age.

Copland: 1900-1942

COPLAND, Aaron

Leaders & Notable People

St Martins Pr

The renowned American composer recounts his life and career since the beginning of World War II and discusses the background of his major works

Copland Since 1943

Arts & Photography

Music

A composer's candid life story has been repackaged for a release coinciding with the centenary celebration of his birth, and includes not only stories of Copland himself, but also those of many of his illustrious colleagues, such as Leonard Bernstein. Reprint.

Copland: Since 1943

In a candid, witty autobiography, the distinguished American composer recalls his Brooklyn childhood, his study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, his music, and his relationships, and offers a portrait of the era in which he lived and worked

Copland: 1900 through 1942

St. Martin’s/Marek

Interweaving photographs, concert programs, scores, and drawings with the texts of more than fifty interviews with family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues, Charles Ives Remembered is a vivid memory portrait of an enigmatic American composer, told in the voices of the people who knew him best.Charles Ives (1874-1954) was publicly an insurance executive but privately a composer whose eccentric works and paradoxical life would intrigue, perplex, and inspire generations to come after him. Moving from Ives's childhood and years at Yale to his business and musical careers, the memories and reflections assembled in this Kinkeldey Award-winning volume provide a multifaceted and humanizing view of an American musical icon.

Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History (The Norton Library)

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Aaron Copland is one of America's most beloved musical pioneers, famous for Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, and Lincoln Portrait, as well as the movie scores for "Our Town" and "Of Mice and Men," and numerous orchestral and chamber works. This candid, colorful memoir begins with Copland's Brooklyn childhood and takes us through his years in Paris, the creation of his early works, and his arrival at Tanglewood. Rich with remembrances from Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, and Nadia Boulanger, as well as a trove of letters, photographs, and scores from Copland's collection, this is one of our most vivid musical autobiographies, and an enduring record of an American maestro's explosively creative coming of age.

Copland, Vol. 1: 1900-1942: 1900-1942 v. 1

Faber&Faber

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

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Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History (Music in American Life)

Charles Ives remembered: An oral history

Charles Ives Remembered

Copland: 1900-1942

Copland Since 1943

Copland: Since 1943

Copland: 1900 through 1942

Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History (The Norton Library)

Copland, Vol. 1: 1900-1942: 1900-1942 v. 1

Copland Since 1943