Charles Ives

Composer/multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Kahane recently took time out while on tour to talk with me about his March 5, 7:30 p.m. concert at Merkin Hall with composer/pianist Timo Andres--entitled "An Evening with Charles Ives"--and the current renaissance of vernacular concert music.

Daniel J. Kushner: Ecstatic Music Festival Interview #3: Gabriel Kahane Daniel J. Kushner 2011

These will include a Charles Ives project in November with the pianist Jeremy Denk, whose luminous Ives interpretations have made him something of an Ives specialist; a Falla/Stravinsky event including a fully-choreographed production of “El Amor Brujo” in December; and, in 2012-13, an “Interpreting Shostakovich” festival and one called “Mexican Revolution.”

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He also admired the U.S. experimentalist Charles Ives.

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For more information on the March 5 concert "An Evening with Charles Ives" featuring Gabriel Kahane and Timo Andres, visit here.

Daniel J. Kushner: Ecstatic Music Festival Interview #3: Gabriel Kahane Daniel J. Kushner 2011

In a program that uncomfortably juxtaposed old standards (Bach, Beethoven, Kreisler) with second-tier Americans (Charles Ives, George Antheil), Hahn and her virtuoso pianist Valentina Lisitsa held the capacity crowd at Strathmore on Sunday afternoon mostly rapt.

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So in his latest programme, Gruber's violin concerto Nebelsteinmusik, with its allusions to Alban Berg's Lyric Suite, is preceded with music by Ives (Three Places in New England) and John Adams (My Father Knew Charles Ives) and followed by the Concerto for Orchestra by Gruber's teacher Gottfried von Einem to whom, not coincidentally surely, Nebelsteinmusik is dedicated, and from the spelling of whose name some of its material derives.

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He also admired the U.S. experimentalist Charles Ives.

'Psycho' Maestro at 100 Jim Fusilli 2011

Instead, he'll be onstage playing Charles Ives's "Concord" sonata and Bach's "Goldberg Variations."

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There was a volume problem with the kooky first half of their first program -- two organ pieces by Charles Ives and his ear-splitting "From the Steeples and the Mountains" for four sets of tuned bells, trumpet and trombone.

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