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...Darling Nellie Gray. The real trick is knowing what the caller means and picking it up fast when he sounds off with: "Bend the line and Dixie chain . . . Strip the gears and do-se-do." Or even the famed (in New England) Doodar- call to the tune of De Camptown Races...
...neatly after their Olympian periods are Ives's variations on Turkey in the Straw, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, even that old Dartmouth drinking song, Where, Oh Where, Are the Pea-Green Freshmen? After passages of spacious solemnity, the horns break suddenly into a capering phrase from Camptown Races; in the midst of the frenzied final movement, doleful woodwinds sound forth with Old Black Joe. Even the ending is typically Ivesian: the entire orchestra comes in with a raucous, jeering cluster of chords...
...program also included Berlioz, Beethoven, William Schuman). After a lengthy lecture, Teacher Bernstein, microphone clipped to his dress shirt, played a few snatches of the American songs that Composer Ives stitched into his symphony (including, in addition to the pea-green freshmen, America the Beautiful, Camptown Races, Turkey in the Straw). Then, turning to his orchestra, Bernstein whipped it through a fine performance, his hips swaying, his arms flinging wide in a characteristic expression of musical frenzy. A youthful work (1897-1901) by Connecticut's late, largely self-taught Modernist Ives (an insurance broker most of his active life...
Until a decade ago, harness racing was a minor, pastoral sport, largely confined to county fairgrounds and camptown tracks. Then the trotters were brought to the big city, presented to the racing public at night in big, new floodlighted tracks, and built up to a major sporting enterprise. Today harness racing is a $430 million-a-year business, the fastest-growing spectator sport in the U.S. With so much money and public interest, it was almost inevitable that the bumpkin sport would catch the eye of big-city racketeers. Last week in New York, as a major harness-racing scandal...
...else. Actually, the chorales are typically Ivesian abstractions; if Ives, a kind of John Marin of music, quotes from anything, it is that old 19th Century standard, the Long Green Organ Book. If there is a "bad joke" anywhere, it comes in the rousing finale where Ives gets De Camptown Races, Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean and some barn dance fiddling all going at once...