The Music of Charles Ives and Gunther Schuller

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The 2012 Four Score Festival presents the music of Charles Ives, Aaron Copland and how their inspiration threaded its way through the work of two of their students, Gunther Schuller and Mario Davidovsky.  

Jim Setapen, Music Institute of Chicago Academy Director discusses Charles Ives, a seminal figure in modern American music who challenged us to consider what classical music is, what it can do for us and why we love it.

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Program

Music of Charles Ives

Violin Sonata No. 4
Sang Mee Lee, violin & Abraham Stokman, piano

Unanswered Question
Dorival Puccini, trumpet
Stephanie Pedretti, Caroline Pittman, Claudia Cryer, and Melissa Snoza, flutes
Academy String Ensemble: James Setapen, conductor

Six Songs
The Things Our Fathers Loved
The Circus Band
Sideshow
Tom Sails Away
Afterglow
Ann Street
Barbara Ann Martin, soprano & Abraham Stokman, piano

Piano Sonata No. 1
Abraham Stokman, piano

Intermission

Music of Gunther Schuller

Episodes
Christie Miller, clarinet

Marimbology
Stephen Hall, marimba

Lifelines
Jesse Langen, guitar
Caroline Pittman, flute
Sean Kopp, percussion