2/5. Studying Music; Giving It Up
Donald Macleod introduces the music that recalls or was written during Ives's years at Yale. He made close friends at college, but found an opponent in his conservative composition teacher Horatio Parker. Ives gave up trying to please audiences after the 1902 performance of his cantata The Celestial
Country, and took off on a more radical path. The Bells of Yale Henry Herford (baritone),
Ensemble Modern, conductor Ingo Metzmacher Calcium Light Night Ensemble Modern, conductor Ingo Metzmacher
Piano Trio Glen Dicterow (violin),
Alan Stepansky (cello), Israela Margalit (piano) Symphony No 1 (excerpt)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Morton Gould
The Celestial Country (excerpt)
Christopher Hughes (organ), Duke Quartet, BBC Singers, New London Orchestra, conductor Stephen Cleobury