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...desire to dig a little in real life, along with some revulsion at respectability and belief in an independent ruggedness, from the New England Transcendentalists. He read them again and again, quoting them in letters and memos and then finally in a book of criticism called Essays Before a Sonata, a sort of preface to a four-movement piano sonata celebrating Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts and Thoreau in turn. Ives particularly admired Emerson for his 'radicalism'--so radical, Ives wrote, that it "plunges to all roots at once," cutting the basis from more limited, specific criticism of the world even...
...Concord Sonata, all the ambivalences and ambiguities work. All through the sonata Ives keeps returning to the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, but they sound with a double edge. Beethoven meant to Ives all that was most progressive, most substantial, most radical--the "last sublime echoes of the greatest socialist symphonies" and "the relentlessness of fate knocking at the door." But in the third movement of the sonata, "The Alcotts," Ives made the four notes over, into an old hymn tune, as peaceful and completed as the camp-meeting songs his grandmother had sung. The tune recurs...
Stephen Drury '77, piano, playing Ives: Sonata No. 1. Free. Friday...
Hugh Wolff, piano, plays Schumann Fantasy and Brahms Sonata #3. Free. Saturday...
Lydia Artymiw, piano, plays Beethoven Sonata, Op. 27 #1, Schumann Fantasiestucke, Schubert Sonata, Op. 42, Chopin. Free. Sunday...