MU University (Virtual Event #12)

Sunday Nov 14

11:30 AM-12:30 PM (EST) Instruction: The False Scandals Lodged Against Charles Ives

• Carol Kitzes Baron and the Ives Scandal of Changing Dates
• Johnny Reinhard on the Ives Scandal of Changing Chromatics to make his Music “More Dissonant”
• Anthony Cooke on his new research into Ives and the particulars of Ives’s illness

1:00 PM-2:30 PM (EST) The making of the Charles Ives “Universe Symphony,” and Ives’s transcendental tuning in the “Concord Sonata,” “String Quartet No. 2,” and the “Unanswered Question,” w/ Johnny Reinhard.

Ives: The Universe Symphony – Johnny Reinhard, conductor of the American Festival of Microtonal Music Orchestra in Lincoln Center, NYC – world premiere 1996-06-06 and rehearsal | Johnny Reinhard (bandcamp.com)

Ives: Concord Sonata, String Quartet No. 2, and the Unanswered Question in extended Pythagorean tuning

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