Charles Ives’s America: Documentary Film

From the Charles Ives Society: "Steeped in nostalgia, in his Danbury childhood and the New England Transcendentalists with whom he profoundly identified, in the American experience of race which he absorbed from his Abolitionist grandparents, Charles Ives used the past with consummate empathy. A musical Whitman or Melville, he embodies the American trope of the “self-made genius,” heeding Emerson’s call to cut the cultural umbilical cord with Europe, forging an original path." The documentary was written and produced by Joseph Horowitz in 2021 with visual presentation by Peter Bogdanoff.

September 22, 2024