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1897: |
First publication: A Song of Mory’s, in Yale Courant
(Feb, Fourth Week) |
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1968: |
First recording: Aedeste Fideles in an Organ Prelude
(Richard Ellsasser; issued in 1968 by Nonesuch) |
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1991: |
First recording: song Premonitions (Nicholas Isherwood
[B] and Eric Watson [pf]; issued in 1991 by Accord) |
| Feb 1 |
1942: |
Premiere: song A Christmas Carol (Fern Sayre [S] and
Clare Bruns [pf], with Elise Moennig [fl]), at Los Angeles, Calif. |
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1952: |
First publication: choral Turn Ye, Turn Ye, New York:
Mercury Music |
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National Freedom Day (annual): Ives pieces that quote George
F. Root’s Civil War song ‘The Battle Cry of Freedom’ include: Decoration
Day, Fourth of July, Three Places in New England/i&ii,
"Country Band" March, Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano/ii,
Three Quarter-Tone Pieces/ii, and songs In Flanders Fields,They
Are There!, and The Things Our Fathers Loved. |
| Feb 5 |
1876: |
Birth of brother Joseph Moss Ives II, at Danbury, Conn. |
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1919: |
Diary: "C[harlie] finishes Thoreau [chapter of Essays Before
a Sonata]" (the literary preface to Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord,
Mass.) |
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1965: |
First recording: song Cradle Song (Margaret Speaks
[S] and Collins Smith [pf]; at the Alma Gluck Concert Hall [244 East 52nd
Street], New York City, sponsored by the Turtle Bay Music School |
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1972: |
Premiere: band Fantasia (Variations) on "Jerusalem the
Golden" (James Caldwell High School Band, cond. by Keith Brion), in
the arr. by Keith Brion, at West Caldwell, New Jersey |
| Feb 6 |
1933: |
Premiere: songs Afterglow, Ann Street, Like
a Sick Eagle (Judith Litante [S] and Henry Brant [pf]), in a concert
at Steinway Hall, New York City |
| Feb 7 |
1965: |
Premiere: songs Luck and Work, Duty (Wesley
Flinn [Bar] and Jo Boatright [pf]), at Temple Emmanu-El, Dallas, Texas |
| Feb 8 |
1889: |
Premiere: song At Parting (N. A. Seely, vocalist),
at Brewster, NY |
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1925: |
Premiere: 2-piano "Chorale" from Three Quarter-Tone Pieces
(Hans Barth and Sigmund Klein [pf]; E. Robert Schmitz, lecturer), at Chickering
Hall, New York City |
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1965: |
Premiere: A Set of Three Short Pieces [mvts: Largo
cantabile: Hymn, Scherzo: Holding Your Own, Adagio cantabile: The Innate]
(student chamber ensemble) and piano Waltz-Rondo (Jerrold Cox), in
Crouse Auditorium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY |
| Feb 10 |
1921: |
Ives hears Stravinsky’s Firebird suite at Carnegie
Hall, New York City |
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1950: |
Premiere: song A Night Song (Paul Ukena [Bar] and Jack
Cox [pf]), at the Juilliard School of Music, New York City |
| Feb 11 |
1967: |
Premiere: Orchestral Set No. 2 (Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
cond. by Morton Gould), in a "Popular Concert" in Orchestra Hall, Chicago,
Illinois |
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1970: |
Premiere: chamber ens In Re Con Moto et al. (by members
of the Performers’ Committee for Twentieth-Century Music [Cheryl Seltzer,
Peter Perrin, and Joel Sachs directors]), at McMillin Theatre, Columbia
University, New York City |
| Feb 12 |
1809: |
Birth of Abraham Lincoln on a farm in Kentucky. Ives memorialized
Lincoln in the choral or song Lincoln, the Great Commoner. |
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1903: |
Date on manuscript: Practice for String Quartet in Holding
Your Own! "dedicated to [violinist/violist] Gustave Bach" |
| Feb 14 |
1838: |
Birth of composer David Wallis Reeves at Owego, NY. Ives used
Reeves’s ‘Second Regiment Connecticut National Guard March’ in his orchestra
or violin & piano Decoration Day and in Holiday Quickstep. |
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1925: |
Premiere: 2-piano "Largo" and "Allegro" from Three Quarter-Tone
Pieces (Hans Barth and Sigmund Klein [pf]), at Aeolian Hall, New York
City |
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1942: |
First recording: Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano
(Joseph Szigeti [vn] and Andor Foldes [pf]; issued in 1942 by New Music
Recordings) |
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1948: |
Premiere: Orchestral Set No. 1 [1935 version] (Boston
Symphony Orchestra, cond. by Richard Burgin), at Symphony Hall, Boston,
Mass. |
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Valentine’s Day (annual): songs Because of You, Because
Thou Art, Canon, Dreams, Friendship, In My Beloved’s
Eyes, My Lou Jennine, An Old Flame, Weil’ auf mir/Eyes
so dark |
| Feb 15 |
1934: |
Premiere: song Premonitions (Rudolphine Radil [S] and
Dora Blaney [pf]), at the University of California, San Francisco, Calif. |
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1935: |
Premiere: songs At the River, The Children’s Hour,
Immortality, and Mists [II] (Jella Braun-Fernwald ["Gesang";
no further identification] and Ernst Bachrich [pf]) at Saal des Wissenschaftlichen
Clubs Wien, Vienna, Austria |
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1967: |
First recording: Orchestral Set No. 2 (Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, cond. by Morton Gould; issued in 1967
by RCA Victor) |
| Feb 16 |
1902: |
Premiere: lost choral Anthem: Religion at Central Presbyterian
Church, New York City (developed into song Religion) |
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1930: |
Private premiere: Nicolas Slonimsky conducts Three Places
in New England (Orchestral Set No. 1) for I.S.C.M. American Committee,
New York City |
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1932: |
Premiere: Set for Theatre Orchestra, complete (Pan
American Chamber Orchestra, cond. by Adolph Weiss), at New School Auditorium,
New York City |
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1975: |
Premiere: March No. 6 for Piano, with "Here’s to Good Old
Yale" and piano Invention in D (Alan Mandel), in Carnegie Recital
Hall, New York City |
| Feb 17 |
1892: |
Ives plays "Variations on a National Hymn" [Variations
on "America"] at Brewster, NY |
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1937: |
First publication: Washington’s Birthday [mvt. i of
"Holiday Symphony"] in New Music, Orch. Series |
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1949: |
Premiere: Sonata No. 1 for Piano (William Masselos
[pf]), at Kauffman Hall, Y.M.H.A., New York City |
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1975: |
First recording: band March in F and C, with "Omega Lambda
Chi" (The Incredible Columbia All-Star Band, cond. by Gunther Schuller;
issued in 1975 by Columbia Records) |
| Feb 20 |
1919: |
Diary: "Emerson, Alcotts & Thoreau all finished . . .
3 mvts" (refering to the completion of Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord,
Mass. |
| Feb 21 |
1889: |
Premiere: choral I Think of Thee, My God, at Brewster,
NY |
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1932: |
Premiere: The Fourth of July [mvt. iii of "Holidays
Symphony"] (members of Orchestre Symphonique de Paris, cond. by Nicolas
Slonimsky), at Salle Pleyel, Paris, France |
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1947: |
Premiere: song Slugging a Vampire (Jane Beard [Mez]
and Florence Kunz [pf]), at Times Hall, New York City |
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1982: |
First recording: Orchestral Set No. 3, mvt. i (The
Pacific Symphony Orchestra, cond. by Keith Clark; issued in 1983 by Andante
Records) |
| Feb 22 |
1930: |
Birth of soprano Marni Nixon at Altadena, Calif. Nixon sang
for the first recording of the song Soliloquy (8 July 1967). |
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1951: |
Premiere: Symphony No. 2 (New York Philharmonic, cond.
by Leonard Bernstein), at Carnegie Hall, New York City; Anton Rovinsky plays
The Celestial Railroad in performance broadcast over station WNYC,
New York City. |
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1956: |
Premiere: Calcium Light Night [arr. Cowell; mvt. v
of Set No. 1] (by a student instr ens, cond. by Keith Wilson); songs
No More, A Sea Dirge, There is a certain garden, and
Yellow Leaves (Helen Boatwright [S] and John Kirkpatrick [pf]), in
Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
| Feb 23 |
1930: |
Hans Barth (pf) plays mvt. i ("Largo") of the 2-piano Three
Quarter-Tone Pieces at Carnegie Hall, New York City |
| Feb 24
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1939: |
Premiere: songs Autumn, Berceuse, Down East,
The Side Show, and Two Little Flowers (Mina Hager (Mez) and John
Kirkpatrick [pf]), in an all-Ives program at Town Hall, New York City |
| Feb 25 |
1976: |
Premiere: Four Ragtime Dances, No. 3 (Chamber Orchestra
of New England, cond. by James Sinclair), in Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale
University, New Haven, Conn. |
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1990: |
First recording: Four Ragtime Dances (Orchestra New
England, cond. by James Sinclair; issued in 1990 by Koch International) |
| Feb 26 |
1975: |
First recording: The Boys in Blue (The Whiffenpoofs
of 1975; issued in 1975 by The Whiffenpoofs) |
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1990: |
First recording: Orchestral Set No. 1: Three Places in
New England [1930 version as premiered by Nicolas Slonimsky] (Orchestra
New England, cond. by James Sinclair; issued in 1990 by Koch International) |
| Feb 27 |
1807: |
Birth of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at Portland, Maine.
Ives used Longfellow texts in the choral Serenade and the song The
Children’s Hour. |
| Feb 28 |
1924: |
Premiere: song The Greatest Man (George S. Madden [Bar]
and Josef Furginele [pf]), at Town Hall, New York City |
