Charles Ives

Ives brought together four orchestral holiday portraits: Washington's Birthday, Decoration Day, The Fourth of July, and Thanksgiving and Forefathers' Day. Hymns, marches and overlapping layers evoke remembered...

Ives wrote his First Symphony in the context of his studies with Horatio Parker at Yale. The four-movement score works within a European orchestral tradition, including a slow movement whose English-horn melody...

Ives's Second Symphony places American songs and hymns inside a design that also recalls the European orchestral tradition. It has five movements, with slow sections framing or preparing faster ones. The music...

Ives drew this compact symphony from hymn memories and music associated with his work as a church organist. Its three movements evoke a gathering, children's activities and communion at an American camp meeting. A...

Ives's Fourth combines hymns, marches, fugue and simultaneous musical layers in four movements. Its second movement draws on Hawthorne's The Celestial Railroad, placing conflicting musical processes beside one...