Panel 1: Ives and Nature
Description
In the festival’s first multidisciplinary panel, cultural historian Joseph Horowitz contrasts Ives’s more realistic musical portrayals of nature with his predecessor’s more conventional ones. Art historian Tim Barringer examines Ives’s ways of conveying visual impressions through music, linking them to American painting, photography, quilting, and other visual arts of his time. Derek J. Myler shows how Ives’s musical rendering of the Housatonic River accurately represents the way it flows. Two IU art historians and two visiting Ives scholars join the concluding discussion.
Recording
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Personnel
Tim Barringer (Art History, Yale University)
Derek J. Myler (Music Theory, East Carolina University)
Discussants
Cordula Grewe (Art History, Indiana University)
Melody Barnett Deusner (Art History, Indiana University)
Denise Von Glahn (Musicology, Florida State University)
Jan Swafford (Ives biographer)
School of Music Program
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Program
Ives and Nature
J. Peter Burkholder, chair
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Feldeinsamkeit (Hermann Allmers, ca. 1898)
William Sharp, baritone
Steven Mayer, piano
Joseph Horowitz: “Mud and Scum”
Charles Ives
The Housatonic at Stockbridge (Robert Underwood Johnson, arr. 1921)
William Sharp, baritone
Steven Mayer, piano
Tim Barringer (Art History, Yale University): Ives and the Visual
Derek J. Myler (Music Theory, East Carolina University): Ives’s Housatonic and the Hydrology of River Flow
Discussants
Cordula Grewe (Art History, Indiana University)
Melody Barnett Deusner (Art History, Indiana University)
Denise Von Glahn (Musicology, Florida State University)
Jan Swafford (Ives biographer)
Derek J. Myler’s presence is made possible by the Music Theory Five Friends Master Class Series honoring Robert Samels.