Mad Music: Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (770 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611683998 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 324 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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A New Biography of Charles Ives "Mad Music, Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel" by Stephen Budiansky is a highly engaging, absorbing, and thoughtful biography of the great American composer Charles Ives (187A New Biography of Charles Ives Robin Friedman "Mad Music, Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel" by Stephen Budiansky is a highly engaging, absorbing, and thoughtful biography of the great American composer Charles Ives (1874 -- 1954) and a story of the lost America of his era. Although Ives' music remained obscure during much of his life, the composer has not lacked biographers, including, for example, re. -- 195A New Biography of Charles Ives Robin Friedman "Mad Music, Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel" by Stephen Budiansky is a highly engaging, absorbing, and thoughtful biography of the great American composer Charles Ives (1874 -- 1954) and a story of the lost America of his era. Although Ives' music remained obscure during much of his life, the composer has not lacked biographers, including, for example, re. ) and a story of the lost America of his era. Although Ives' music remained obscure during much of his life, the composer has not lacked biographers, including, for example, re. A Composer to be Cherished Judd Parkin Outstanding in every way. Accessible to the non-musician, while still be insightful enough to satisfy serious Ives students and scholars. Easily the best balanced of the Ives biographies I've read. A generous portrayal of a generous man who dragged music into the modern era. The best book of its kind I've read in years.. "Five Stars" according to Karen de la Cuesta. Bought as a gift and is a great read.
The writing is exceptionally clear and enjoyable to read--the absence of musical jargon means that any reader can understand and enjoy every chapter. "Eminently insightful and engagingly written. The content and style of this exhaustively researched biography combine to provide a compelling narrative of a unique figure." -- Choice"Mad Music is the provocative, but historically and musicologically correct title for Stephen Budiansky's biography of Charles Ives Budiansky has made significant new discoveries about the composer, finding previously unknown correspondence revealing the physical and mental impact of Ives' 1918 diagnosis with diabetes" -- San Francisco Classical Voice"A superbly written narrative of a life and a calling balances perfectly the man Charles Ives and the musician Charles Ives" -- WOSU Classical 101“A superb and genial biography of Charles Ives.”—Washington Post
Though Ives steadfastly remained an outsider in many ways, his life and times inform us of subjects beyond music, including the mystic movement, progressive anticapitalism, and the initial hesitancy of turn-of-the-century-America modernist intellectuals. To Stephen Budiansky, Ives’s life story is a personification of America emerging as a world power: confident and successful, yet unsure of the role of art and culture in a modernizing nation. Deeply researched and elegantly written, this accessible biography tells a uniquely American story of a hidden genius, disparaged as a dilettante, who would shape the history of music in a profound way.Making use of newly published letters—and previously undiscovered archival sources bearing on the longstanding mystery of Ives’s health and creative decline&mdash