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1921: |
song Immortality composed, prompted by daughter Edith’s
illness |
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1925: |
Ives’s article "Some Quarter-Tone Impressions" appears in
Franco-American Musical Society Bulletin. Ives composed a 2-piano
Three Quarter-Tone Pieces. |
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1984: |
First recording: song Slugging a Vampire (Roberta Alexander
[S] and Tan Crone [pf]; issued in 1984 by Etcetera Records) |
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1989: |
First recording: song Du alte Mutter [using German
text], Remembrance (Roberta Alexander [S] and Tan Crone [pf]; issued
in 1989 by Etcetera Records) |
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1993: |
First recording: choral Crossing the Bar (New Amsterdam
Singers, Elizabeth Rodgers [pf], cond. by Clara Longstreth; issued in 1993
by Albany Records) |
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Mar 1
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1848: |
Birth of American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens at Dublin,
Ireland. Saint-Gaudens’s bas-relief on Boston Common inspired the first
mvt. of Ives’s Three Places in New England (Orchestral Set No. 1).
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1896: |
Birth of pianist (and conductor) Dimitri Mitropoulos at Athens,
Greece. Mitropoulos accompanied the premiere of Ives’s songs A Farewell
to Land, The New River, Song for Harvest Season, and
Tolerance. |
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1932: |
Premiere: song Rough Wind (Judith Litante [S] and Genia
Nemenoff-Luboshutz [pf]), at New School, New York City |
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1968: |
Premiere: song Kären (Helen Boatwright [S] and
William Dale [pf]), in the Great Hall of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale
University, New Haven, Conn. |
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Mar 2
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1938: |
Premiere: Three Harvest Home Chorales, mvts. i &
iii (The Madrigal Singers, Lehman Engel, cond.) |
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Mar 3
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1948: |
Premiere: Psalm 67 and Three Harvest Chorales
[complete] (Collegiate Chorale, cond. by Robert Shaw), at Carnegie Hall,
New York City |
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1974: |
Premiere: "Country Band" March, Overture and March
"1776", Fugue in Four Keys, Chromâtimelôdtune
[Singleton realization], An Old Song Deranged, Set No.
2 [complete], March No. 2, with "Son of a Gambolier", March
No. 3, with "My Old Kentucky Home, and the instrumental versions of
songs Charlie Rutlage, Mists, Evening, Swimmers,
Remembrance (Yale Theater Orchestra, cond. by James Sinclair), in
Sprague Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
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Mar 4
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1897: |
First documented performance: The combined Washington US Marine
Band and New Haven Band perform March "Intercollegiate" as part of
the activities of the presidential inauguration of William McKinley, Washington,
DC |
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1951: |
Ives hears radio rebroadcast of Symphony No. 2 performance
at the West Redding home of neighbor William Ryder |
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Mar 5
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1928: |
Premiere: Emerson movement of Sonata No. 2 for Piano:
Concord, Mass. (Katherine Heyman [pf]), in radio broadcast from the
Sorbonne station, Paris, France |
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1932: |
Nicolas Slonimsky conducts members of the Berlin Philharmonic
in The Fourth of July [mvt. iii of "Holidays Symphony"] and Set
for Theatre Orchestra, mvts. i & iii at Beethovensall, Berlin, Germany
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1936: |
Premiere: songs The Innate, Majority, Paracelsus,
Requiem, and Resolution (Victor Prahl [voice type not given]
and Olivier Messiaen [pf]), Salle des Concerts de la Schola Cantorum, Paris,
France |
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Mar 9
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1902: |
chamber ens Hymn-Anthem performed at Central Presbyterian
Church; developed into mvt. iii ("In the Night") of Set for Theatre Orchestra.
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1969: |
First recording: March "Intercollegiate," with "Annie Lisle"
(Cornell Wind Ensemble, cond. by Marice Stith; issued in 1971 by Cornell
Wind Ensemble) |
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Mar 11
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1897: |
Birth of Ives editor and biographer (and composer) Henry Cowell
at Menlo Park, Calif. Cowell was an editor of Symphonies No. 2 &
3, piano Three-Page Sonata and Study Nos. 9, 21 & 22,
and choral Three Harvest Home Chorales, and arranger of Calcium
Light Night (mvt. v of Set No. 1). |
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1932: |
Premiere: song New River (Mary Bell [S] and Horst Keihl
[pf]), at the Förster–Dresdner Haus, Dresden, Germany |
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Mar 12
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1826: |
Birth of hymn tune composer Robert Lowry at Philadelphia, Penn. Lowry’s tunes used by Ives include:
The Beautiful River ("Shall we gather at the river"; Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano, mvt. 3; song At the River)
Need ("I need Thee ev’ry hour"; Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano, mvts. i & iii)
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1948: |
Premiere: Four Transcriptions from "Emerson", complete
(Webster Aitken [pf]), at Town Hall, New York City |
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Mar 13
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1939: |
First publication: choral Psalm 67, New York and London:
Associated Music Publishers |
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1974: |
First recording: "Country Band" March, Overture
and March "1776," Fugue in Four Keys, Holiday Quickstep,
Charlie Rutlage [Set No. 5, mvt. iii], Mists [Set
No. 6, mvt. i], and Swimmers [Set No. 7, mvt. ii] (Yale
Theater Orchestra, cond. by James Sinclair; issued in 1974 by CBS Masterworks)
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Mar 15
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1929: |
Premiere: songs Serenity and The Things Our Fathers
Loved (Mary Bell [Mez] and Julius Hijman [pf]), at Carnegie Chamber
Music Hall, New York City |
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Mar 16
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1823: |
Birth of hymn tune composer William Henry Monk at London,
England. Ives borrowed Monk’s EVENTIDE ("Abide with
me") in "In the Night" [mvt. iii of Set for Theatre Orchestra]. |
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1942: |
Sol Babitz (vn), Ingolf Dahl (pf) perform Sonata No. 3
for Violin and Piano, at "Evenings on the Roof," Los Angeles. First
recording: in the 1940s the same ensemble records the same work for the
Alco label (issued in 1940s). |
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1978: |
Premiere: Orchestral Set No. 3, mvt. i [Porter realization]
(California State University Orchestra, cond. by Keith Clark), at Fullerton,
Calif. |
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Mar 17
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1904: |
Date on manuscript: early material for song On the Antipodes—"Bill
Maloney mad at this" |
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1943: |
Bernard Herrmann conducts the Columbia Concert Orchestra in
String Quartet No. 1, mvts. ii-iv, broadcast over WABC and NET (also
included is Symphony No. 4, mvts. i & iii) |
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1967: |
Premiere: songs Omens and Oracles, Songs my mother
taught me, and The World’s Wanderers (Larro Chelsi [Bar] and
Mary Kay Clark [pf], with Gerald Warburg [vc]), at the Danbury High School
Auditorium, Danbury, Conn. |
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1984: |
Premiere: The Unanswered Question [version 1] (American
Composers Orchestra, cond. by Dennis Russell Davies), in the "Wall-to-Wall
Ives" series at Symphony Space, New York City |
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St. Patrick’s Day (annual): March No. 2, with "Son of a
Gambolier"; song A Son of a Gambolier |
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1905: |
Birth of pianist and Ives cataloguer and editor John Kirkpatrick
at New York City. After his premiering in 1938 of Sonata No. 2 for Piano:
Concord, Mass. Kirkpatrick became the leading figure of the 20th century
in Ives scholarship. He died 8 November 1991. |
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1924: |
Premiere: Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano (Jerome
Goldstein [vn] and Rex Tillson [pf]), at Aeolian Hall, New York City |
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1942: |
First publication: Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano,
New York: Arrow Music Press |
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Mar 19
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1910: |
New York Symphony, cond. by Walter Damrosch, reads mvts. ii-iv
of Symphony No. 1. Damrosch called the work "charming...The instrumentation
is remarkable and the workmanship is admirable" but did not take up the
work for a premiere performance (which came only in Apr 1953). |
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Mar 20
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Spring equinox (annual): songs Frühlingslied,
Gruss, A Perfect Day, Spring Song, Two Little Flowers |
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Mar 21
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1685: |
Birth of Johann Sebastian Bach at Eisenach, Germany. Ives borrowed several tunes by Bach, including:
motiv "B-A-C-H" (Three-Page Sonata, opening section)
Sinfonia in A Minor (S. 799; piano Invention in D)
Sinfonia in F Minor (S. 785; Symphony No. 2, mvts. i & iv; piano Study No. 21: Some Southpaw Pitching)
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor ("Dorian" S. 538; Symphony No. 4, mvt. iii and String Quartet No. 1, mvt. i)
"Well-Tempered Clavier" (Book I) Fugue in E Minor (S. 855; Symphony No. 2, mvt. v)
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1949: |
First publication: Three Harvest Home Chorales, New
York: Mercury Music |
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Mar 22
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1939: |
First recording: choral Psalm 67 (The Madrigal Singers,
cond. by Lehman Engel, for Columbia Records; issued 1939) |
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Mar 23
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1968: |
Premiere: piano Set of Five Take-Offs and Study
Nos. 2, 5, 6, 7, 15, 20, and 23 (Alan Mandel), at Town Hall,
New York City |
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Mar 25
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1949: |
First publications: piano Study No. 9: The Anti-Abolitionist
Riots in the 1830’s and 1840’s and Study No. 21: Some Southpaw Pitching,
and Three-Page Sonata, each ed. Henry Cowell. New York: Mercury Music
(separately) |
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1965: |
Modern premiere: March "Intercollegiate," with "Annie Lisle"
(James Caldwell High School Band, cond. by Keith Brion), at West Caldwell,
New Jersey |
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1966: |
First documented performance (using piano): Processional: Let There Be Light, song Allegro (Winifred Keane [S] and John Kirkpatrick [pf]), and choral They Are There! (Danbury State Chorus, cond. by James Furman, with A. William Ferguson [pf] accompanying), at the Berkshire Auditorium, Danbury, Conn. |
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Mar 27
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1924: |
Ives hears Stravinsky’s Rossignol and Scriabin’s Le
Poème de l’extase. |
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1947: |
First publication: Symphony No. 3, ed. Lou Harrison,
New York: Arrow Music Press |
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Mar 28
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1950: |
song Ich grolle nicht (Rosemary Volz [S] and Viola
Filter [pf]), in an all-Ives concert at the Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin |
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Mar 29
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1906: |
Birth of organist E. Power Biggs at Westcliff-on-Sea, England.
Biggs gave the modern premiere of, and edited for publication, Variations
on "America." |
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1935: |
First publication: Orchestral Set No. 1: Three Places in
New England [1935 version], Boston: C. C. Birchard |
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Mar 30
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1898: |
George Chadwick visits Horatio Parker’s music classes at Yale,
admires Ives’s song Feldeinsamkeit |
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1940: |
Premiere: song Night of Frost in May (Shirley Brandt
[Contralto] and Norman Cazden [pf]), at the Dalcroze School of Music, New
York City |
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1953: |
First publication: Largo for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano,
New York: Southern Music Publishing Company |
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Mar 31
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1894: |
Ives sees Wagner’s Götterdämmerung performed
in New York City |
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1929: |
Birth of organist Charles Krigbaum at Seattle, Washington.
Krigbaum premiered organ Canzonetta, Fugue in C Minor, and
Fugue in E-flat, and played in the premiere of chamber ens Prelude
on "Eventide" (which piece developed into "In the Night" [mvt. iii of
Set for Theatre Orchestra]). Krigbaum has edited those works for
future publication. |
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1968: |
Birth of Ives editor and music engraver Thomas Brodhead. Brodhead
has edited piano The Celestial Railroad and Four Transcriptions
from "Emerson" for future publication. |
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1969: |
First recording: Scherzo: All the Way Around and Back,
Set No. 1 [complete], The Last Reader [Set No. 2, mvt.
iii (instrumental)], and Set No. 3 (chamber orchestra, cond. by Gunther
Schuller; issued in 1970 by Columbia Records) |
