Music Of America: Charles Ives / Various Premium

Marching bands, folk songs, hymns, sentimental tunes they were all woven together in the mind and music of Charles Ives. He made a living as an insurance executive, but his pieces were as groundbreaking as Stravinsky’s or Schoenberg’s, and Leonard Bernstein and Michael Tilson Thomas were ardent advocates of them. Those conductors appear as you hear Ives’ second and third symphonies; Three Places in New England; New England Holiday; from the Steeples and the Mountains; Robert Browning Overture; Variations in America; the Unanswered Question, and more!