A new take on Wynton Marsalis’s “Blues Symphony,” a piano cycle by Gregory Spears and Rosa Feola’s solo debut are among the highlights. This pioneering composer is not the easiest to love. But while ...

One hundred-fifty years ago, a mild-mannered insurance man was born in the small Connecticut town of Danbury. On nights and weekends, he composed music, most of which went unperformed in his lifetime.

Ives was a composer who started composing music at age 13, according to the Charles Ives Society website. He composed several songs, including "Variations on America," and he won a Pulitzer Prize for ...

Arnold Schoenberg, himself a revolutionary composer when Ives’s music was more respected than played, thought his adopted country was overlooking a native genius. “There is a great man living in this ...

In 1921, Charles E. Ives, a wealthy co-proprietor of the New York life-insurance firm Ives & Myrick, launched a bid to rebrand himself as an American Beethoven. He sent copies of his Second Piano ...

This is FRESH AIR. This year marks the 150th birthday of Charles Ives. Many music lovers consider him the first truly great American composer, although some of them are bewildered by his untraditional ...

Charles Edward Ives is a composer U.S. musicians like to talk about—but seldom get to hear. Much of his diffuse, polytonal music is as difficult as trying to play a Bach fugue on a musical saw—and ...

DANBURY -- The Danbury Music Centre will have its annual celebration of the Oct. 20, 1874, birth of Danbury native Charles Edward Ives on Saturday. Nancy F. Sudik, executive director of the Danbury ...