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1898: |
Date on manuscript: song Flag Song |
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1903: |
Date on manuscript: The Light That Is Felt arranged as a song |
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1907: |
Date on manuscript: Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano, mvt.
ii, ink copy, "1902, Nov. 1907" |
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1911: |
Date on manuscript: song Requiem—"118 Waverly Place [NYC] ...
Nov. 1911" |
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1914: |
Globe Theater orchestra (New York City) reads Washington’s Birthday
[mvt. i of "Holidays
Symphony"] |
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1920: |
choral An Election begun |
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1925: |
Ives harmonizes Edith Ives’s song Christmas Carol |
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1978: |
First recording: songs Allegro, Ilmenau, My Native
Land [I], Nature’s Way, On the Counter,
A Song–For Anything, Songs my mother taught
me, Spring Song, To Edith, Waltz, The World’s
Highway, and The World’s Wanderers (Walter
Carringer [T] and Will Crutchfield [pf]; issued in 1979
by Brewster Records) |
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1962: |
First recording: songs The Cage and Soliloquy (Jean Lunn
[S] and Lawrence Smith [pf]), at the
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Penn. |
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1929: |
Birth of conductor (and composer) Harold Farberman at New York City.
Farberman conducted for the
first recording of Largo: The Indians (mvt. i of
Set No. 2), The Pond (with voice), chamber ens The
Rainbow, Tone Roads Nos. 1 & 3, Largo
cantabile: Hymn (mvt. i of A Set of Three Short Pieces),
and cantata The Celestial Country. |
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1942: |
Premiere: song The Last Reader (Doris Doe [Mezz] and Hellmut
Baerwald [pf]), at Town Hall, New
York City |
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1969: |
First recording: songs Canon [I], Down East, and The
New River (Helen Boatwright [S] and John
Kirkpatrick [pf]; issued in 1974 by Columbia Records) |
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1894: |
Death of George Edward Ives (father), age 49, at Danbury, Conn. Biographers
Henry and Sidney Cowell
said that Charles Ives, in essence, wrote his father’s
music. Thus all of Ives’s music memorializes his
father, but particularly so Decoration Day [mvt.
ii of "Holidays Symphony"] and song Remembrance.
Immediately after his father’s death, Ives found solice
in the writings of Thoreau and wrote two pieces
about that author ("Thoreau", mvt. iv of Sonata No.
2 for Piano: Concord, Mass. and song Thoreau). |
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1912: |
Date on manuscript: song Vote for Names! Names! Names! ("Election
Day") |
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1966: |
First recording: song The Circus Band (Lois White [Mez] and
Linda Jaffarian [pf]), at Sprague Memorial
Hall, New Haven, Conn. |
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1967: |
First recording: Symphony No. 1 (Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
cond. by Morton Gould; issued in
1966 by RCA Victor) |
| Nov 6
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1854: |
Birth of John Philip Sousa at Washington, DC. Ives borrowed material
from three Sousa marches:
Liberty Bell March (Three Places in New
England/ii)
Semper Fideles March (Three Places in New
England/ii; "Country Band" March)
Washington Post March (Symphony No. 4/ii;
Central Park in the Dark) |
| Nov 8
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1896: |
Date on manuscript: ink copy of song Frühlingslied |
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1991: |
Death of pianist and Ives cataloguer and editor John Kirkpatrick at
Ithaca, NY. After his premiering in
1938 of Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass. Kirkpatrick
became the leading figure in Ives
scholarship during the 20th century. |
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1879: |
Birth of poet Vachel Lindsay at Springfield, Mass. Ives used a Linday
poem for song General Booth
Enters into Heaven. |
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1953: |
First publication: Ten Songs, New York: Peer International |
| Nov 11
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1909: |
Ives hears Max Fiedler conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Reger,
Brahms, and R. Strauss, at
Carnegie Hall, New York City |
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Veteran’s Day (annual): songs Tom Sails Away, In Flanders
Fields, He Is There!, They Are There! |
| Nov 12
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1946: |
Premiere: song Feldeinsamkeit/In Summer Fields (Maralin Dice
[S] and Pauline Wenger [pf]), at
University of California, Los Angeles, Calif. |
| Nov 13
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1850: |
Birth of British poet Robert Louis Stevenson at Edinburgh, Scotland.
Ives used a Stevenson poem for
song Requiem. |
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1854: |
Birth of composer and teacher George Chadwick at Lowell, Mass. Chadwick
visited one of Ives’s music
classes at Yale (taught by Horatio Parker, 30 Mar 1898)
and admired Ives’s song Feldeinsamkeit
above all other performed that day. |
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1907: |
Harmony Twichell to Ives: "our Spring Song is a good one" (for
which she wrote the lyrics). |
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1933: |
Premiere: song Grantchester (Mary Bell [S] and Mabel Schneider
[pf]), at New School, New York
City |
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1900: |
Birth of pianist and critic (and composer) Aaron Copland at Brooklyn,
NY. Copland accompanied the
premiere of seven songs (1 May 1932) selected by him and
subsequently published together: Charlie
Rutlage, Evening, The Indians, Maple
Leaves, The See’r, Serenity, and Walking, and
an additional
song in a later performance (1 Oct 1933) Where the
eagle cannot see. |
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1905: |
Premiere: lost Ragtime Dance tried at Globe Theatre; the piece
became part of Sonata No. 3 for Violin
and Piano, mvt. ii. |
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1953: |
First publication: orchestral The Gong on the Hook and Ladder,
in New Music |
| Nov 17
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1916: |
Birth of soprano Helen Boatwright at Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Boatwright
sang for the first recording of
songs Abide with me, Autumn, Berceuse,
Canon, Disclosure, Down East, Feldeinsamkeit,
He Is
There!, In Flanders Fields, The "Incantation",
Luck and Work, Maple Leaves, The New River,
No More (premiere also), Old Home Day, On
Judges’ Walk (premiere also), The One Way, Peaks,
Pictures (premiere also), A Sea Dirge (premiere
also), The Sea of Sleep, The See’r, Slow March,
Swimmers, Tarrant Moss, There is a certain
garden (premiere also), Tom Sails Away, Walking,
Where the eagle cannot see, The White Gulls,
Widmung, and Yellow Leaves (premiere also), and
the premiere (only) of songs Kären, The
Light That Is Felt, Sunrise, and Wiegenlied. |
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1936: |
Premiere: song At Sea (John Baumgartner [B-Bar] and John Kirkpatrick
[pf]), at Steinway Concert Hall,
New York City |
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1969: |
First recording: songs The "Incantation", Luck and Work,
No More, Old Home Day, On Judges’
Walk, The One Way, Peaks, Pictures,
A Sea Dirge, The Sea of Sleep, Slow March, There
is a
certain garden, and Widmung (Helen Boatwright
[S] and John Kirkpatrick [pf]; issued in 1974 by
Columbia Records) |
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1977: |
Premiere: band Runaway Horse on Main Street (Yale University
Band, cond. by Keith Brion), in the
realization by James B. Sinclair, at Woolsey Hall, New
Haven, Conn. |
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1889: |
Birth of astronomer Edwin Hubble at Mansfield, Missouri. In 1922–24,
Hubble proved that a vast array
of galaxies exist beyond our own and, in 1929, proved
that the universe was expanding rapidly. Ives’s
Universe Symphony contemplates the universe as
Newton understood it and goes on to contemplate
the universe as described by Hubble. |
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1897: |
Yale defeats Princeton football team 6–0 at Yale Field (New Haven,
Conn.) inspiring Yale-Princeton
Football Game |
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1961: |
First recording: Decoration Day [mvt. ii of "Holidays Symphony"]
(The Louisville Orchestra, cond. by
Robert Whitney; issued in 1962 by The Louisville Orchestra) |
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1966: |
Premiere: piano Study No. 8 ( Bruce H. Eberle), Sprague Memorial
Hall, Yale University, New Haven,
Conn. |
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1925: |
Birth of conductor and Ives arranger Gunther Schuller at New York City.
Schuller has edited or
arranged Sets No. 1–3, Chromâtimelôdtune,
The General Slocum, and Yale-Princeton Football
Game, and conducted for the first recording of
Chromâtimelôdtune, The General Slocum,
Yale-Princeton Football Game, and Scherzo: All
the Way Around and Back. His performing
version of Symphony No. 4 is widely used. |
| Nov 23 |
1950 |
Birth of Ives' webmaster (unofficial entry - just checking to
see if you're paying attention) |
| Nov 24
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1897: |
Date on manuscript: organ Prelude for Thanksgiving Service and
Postlude for Thanksgiving Service
at Center Church; both developed into Thanksgiving
(mvt. iv of "Holidays Symphony"). |
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1908: |
Date on manuscript: chamber ens Adagio cantabile: The Innate
[mvt. iii of A Set of Three Short
Pieces], "Saranac Lake, N.Y." |
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1902: |
John C. Griggs sings song Autumn at "Poverty Flat" (New York
City) |
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1928: |
Premiere: Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano (Dorothy Minty [vn]
and Marjorie Gear [pf]), at the
Rudolph Schaeffer Studios, San Francisco, Calif. |
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1909: |
Date on manuscript: Orchestral Set No. 2, mvt. i, score (date
on p. 1) |
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1914: |
Date on manuscript: The Alcotts [mvt. iii of Sonata No. 2
for Piano: Concord, Mass.] "ended . . . from
some themes for an Orchard House Overture, Aug. 1904—but
for a page!" |
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1922: |
Premiere: songs A Night Thought and "The Old Mother" [Du
alte Mutter/My dear old mother]
(George F. Madden [Bar] and Maurice Lafarge [pf]), at
Town Hall, New York City |
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1938: |
Premiere: Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass. (John Kirkpatrick
[pf]), at The Old House, Cos
Cob, Conn. (Paul Rosenfeld’s review in Modern Music:
"the most intense musical experience by an
American"); two months later Kirkpatrick gave the first
New York performance (20 Jan 1939) at
Town Hall. |
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1799: |
Birth of writer and philosopher Bronson Alcott at Wolcott, Conn. Ives
memorialized the Alcott family in
"The Alcotts" (mvt. iii of Sonata No. 2 for Piano:
Concord, Mass.). |
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1882: |
Danbury Evening News reports that a concert at the Methodist
Church fills the hall—everybody cited
approvingly—George Ives’s cornet solo encored—his ladies’
band played—all girls, but with "Master
Charlie Ives, bass drum." Ives later scored memorably
for the bass drum in Hallowe’en and
Chromâtimelôdtune. |
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1970: |
Premiere: The General Slocum and Yale-Princeton Football
Game [Schuller realizations] (American
Symphony Orchestra, cond. by Gunther Schuller), at Carnegie
Hall, New York City |
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1905: |
Date on manuscript: "Poverty Flat" (New York City) residents criticize
the "Country Band" March |
