An Ive's Newsletter (Jaunuary 29th, 2003)

Ives’s official website
The Ives Society’s official website (www.charlesives.org) has some new features:
Past newsletters are now archived under—get this—“Newsletters.”
And we’ve fashioned a Critical Commentaries area where scholarly aparati (often not included
complete in the published scores) will be available. Currently the endnotes for John Kirkpatrick’s
critical edition of the Trio for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano is the sole entry. Obviously, more to
follow! The site has had over 7,000 hits in the past quarter year. Over 400 people have signed up
for information such as this newsletter. Invite your friends to sign up also.

Free Info on the Web!
Can Ives research get any easier?! Three, count ‘em, three important catalogues relating to Ives have become available online!

1. A Descriptive Catalogue of The Music of Charles Ives (by James Sinclair; newly updated) [after executing an index link wait for full download. This online version of the Descriptive Catalogue will be updated as needed; the currency of the update will be noted
   at the bottom of the title page]
   
2. Register to The Charles Ives Papers (by Vivian Perlis)
   
3. The John Kirkpatrick Papers (by James Sinclair)

These are now available and fully searchable at: http://webtext.library.yale.edu. Once there, search
“Ives”. A link is also available on the Ives Society’s website.

Coming Ives Concerts
A number of interesting concerts are upcoming. You can peruse these on the Ives website, in the
“Performance Calendar”.

New Ives Book
Gayle Sherwood has authored a new and indispensable Ives research aid, Charles Ives: A Guide
to Research (New York: Routledge, 2002; ISBN 0-8153-3821-X). This overlaps some with the
also indispensable work by Geoffrey Block (Charles Ives: A Bio-Bibliography. Bio-Bibliographies
in Music, no. 14. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1988), but adds much current information.

Real Insights
J. Peter Burkholder has authored a remarkable article “The Organist in Ives” for the Journal of
the American Musicological Society (2002, vol. 55, no. 2). In it we see how so much about Ives’s
experience with the instrument and its literature informed his future as a composer.

New CDs
The Eroica label has recently released pianist James Nalley’s recording of Ives’s Piano Sonata
No. 1 (Eroica JDT-3097) and critic’s are enthused. The rags have never sounded so good! The
CD also includes Copland’s Sonata.

And the burgeoning Naxos label is about to release (officially on February 18th) James Sinclair’s recording of
Symphony No. 3, Washington’s Birthday, The Unanswered Question, Central Park in the Dark,
“Country Band” March, and Overture and March “1776” (Naxos 8.559087, with the Northern
Sinfonia, Newcastle, England). This is part of an on-going series of the complete orchestral works
which was commenced in 2000 with Symphony No. 2 and the Robert Browning Overture,
Kenneth Schermerhorn conducting the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Naxos 8.559076). Sinclair
will be conducting the rest of the 8-CD series; a release planned for June will feature Symphony
No.1.