| quote | I had an idea which I've never given up and which is, curiously enough, to be a very informal one, and that is that instead of studying one brand of harmony and counterpoint and applying this to every thought in music, that I should have a different kind of musical material for each different idea that I have. So even from the very start, I was sometimes extremely modernistic and sometimes quite old-fashioned, and very often in between. |
| life | March 11, 1897 Menlo Park CA - December 10, 1965 Shady NY. |
| piano works | Exultation. High Color. Hero Sun, Antimony. Aeoloan Harp. Amiable Conversation. Anger Dance. Woof. Fabric. Advertisement... |
| MP3s | Epitonic: Exultation, High Color, Hero Sun. |
| blogging | Renewable Music post, aworks post, category. |
| links | Schirmer bio, worklist, discography. Wikipedia. Kyle Gann. University of South Carolina Collection bio. |
| search | Google web, news, print. Technorati. |
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I think I have a biography that Cowell wrote about Ives, which might be worth listing in the books section. http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-111731622x-1
Posted by: celeste | March 27, 2005 at 07:50 PM
Henry Cowell was gay/bisexual, which of course wasn't unique in the pre-WWII group of of American composers (Copland, Blitzstein, Cage, Rorem, Barber etc.) and after he was arrested in 1936 for having sex with a 17-year old guy, Ives completely cut off Cowell. Sad.
I've heard a couple of his symphonies and they're pretty anonymous, I wonder if I just heard the wrong ones.
Posted by: Jim | June 02, 2005 at 05:51 PM
So I let the oasys do it.
Posted by: | October 08, 2009 at 09:19 AM