Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Interweaving photographs, concert programs, scores, and drawings with the texts of more than fifty interviews with family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues, Charles Ives Remembered is a vivid memory portrait of an enigmatic American composer, told in the voices of the people who knew him best.Charles Ives (1874-1954) was publicly an insurance executive but privately a composer whose eccentric works and paradoxical life would intrigue, perplex, and inspire generations to come after him. Moving from Ives's childhood and years at Yale to his business and musical careers, the memories and reflections assembled in this Kinkeldey Award-winning volume provide a multifaceted and humanizing view of an American musical icon.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of Illustrations (p. vii)
• Foreword to the Illinois Paperback (p. xi)
• Foreword (p. xv)
• Preface (p. xix)
• Youth and Yale Years
• Amelia Van Wyck (p. 3)
• Ely Ryder (p. 13)
• Philip Sunderland (p. 14)
• Lewis Bronson (p. 20)
• Charles Farr (p. 21)
• Harold A. Hatch (p. 24)
• Insurance
• Julian Southall Myrick (p. 31)
• W. Eugene Smith (p. 42)
• Watson Washburn (p. 45)
• William S. Verplanck (p. 47)
• Kathryn Verplanck (p. 48)
• John S. Thompson (p. 50)
• George Hofmann (p. 52)
• Peter M. Fraser (p. 61)
• Mrs. Samuel Berneri (p. 62)
• Charles J. Buesing (p. 65)
• Family, Friends, and Neighbors
• Brewster Ives (p. 71)
• Bigelow Ives (p. 81)
• Chester Ives (p. 84)
• Richard Ives (p. 89)
• Arthur Hall (p. 91)
• T. Findlay MacKenzie (p. 93)
• Barbara MacKenzie (p. 95)
• Will and Luemily Ryder (p. 95)
• Debby Hall Meeker (p. 99)
• Mrs. Burton Twichell (p. 100)
• Gertrude Sanford (p. 101)
• James Thomas Flexner (p. 101)
• George Grayson Tyler (p. 103)
• Charles Ives Tyler (p. 106)
• Charles Kauffman (p. 108)
• Anthony J. ("Babe") LaPine (p. 112)
• William A. Grey (p. 113)
• Carrie Blackwell (p. 114)
• Mrs. Rodman S. Valentine (p. 115)
• Clara Sipprell (p. 117)
• Music
• Mrs. Artur Nikoloric (p. 123)
• Monique Schmitz Leduc (p. 125)
• Elliott Carter (p. 131)
• Charles Seeger (p. 146)
• Nicolas Slonimsky (p. 147)
• Bernard Herrmann (p. 155)
• Jerome Moross (p. 163)
• Arthur Berger (p. 167)
• Lucille Fletcher Wallop (p. 168)
• Darius Milhaud (p. 170)
• Dane Rudhyar (p. 171)
• Carl Ruggles (p. 172)
• Evelyn (Mrs. John J.) Becker (p. 177)
• George F. Roberts (p. 183)
• Mary Bell (p. 190)
• Lehman Engel (p. 193)
• Lou Harrison (p. 198)
• Goddard Lieberson (p. 206)
• Mary Shipman Howard (p. 209)
• Louis Untermeyer (p. 211)
• John Kirkpatrick (p. 213)
• Index (p. 229)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Kirkus Book Review

What a fine idea, and so well done, to assemble a 56-voiced oral memoir of our great eccentric, composer Charles Ives (1874-1954). His body of work was enormous, most of it unplayed in his lifetime. An insurance genius, he usually subsidized performances of his difficult compositions but did not always attend the concerts. And refusing to own a radio or phonograph, he rarely heard his works indirectly either. Instead, he published at his own expense, sent mss. to the world's libraries. But many of Ives' indigestibly confused original notations are now being attempted by leading orchestras (he often had a palimpsest of alternate notes studding his lines, to allow great freedom for performers and conductors). Very late in life he won the Pulitzer. Elliot Carter, otherwise obviously in love with the old man, takes him to task for over-quotation from folk and choral sources, but Ives in his huge enthusiasm to create transcendentally grand impressions of American life does not appear to have been overly demonized by personal expression. Many of the voices taped for this book are those of very old folks indeed (up to 102 years), and all remember Charlie with deepest affection. The many illustrations help bring the rich, warm, crochety, excitable old gent altogether alive. Wonderful! Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

J. Peter Burkholder, a professor of musicology at Indiana University, is president of the Charles Ives Society and editor of Charles Ives and His World. He is the author of All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing and other books.