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Composer of the Week: Ives

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5/5. The World Catches Up. Only after Ives stopped composingin 1927 did other composers and conductors begin to discover his music.
Donald Macleod looks at Ives's last majorwork, his Fourth Symphony, and the pieces that reached the public before his death in 1954. Autumn
William Sharp (baritone), Steven Blier (piano) Symphony No 4 Members of the Schola
Cantorum of New York, American Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leopold Stokowski General William Booth Enters into Heaven Thomas Hampson (baritone),
San Francisco Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas Symphony No 2 (excerpt) New York PO, conductor Leonard Bernstein

Contributors

Music:
Donald MacLeod
Baritone:
William Sharp
Baritone:
Steven Blier
Conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Source: Radio Times

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