Heather Cox Richardson and 250 to 250: Charles Ives, Narrated by David Lang
David Lang is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer, a Professor at the Yale School of Music, and a co-founder of the legendary New York-based music collective Bang on a Can. Here, Lang profiles composer Charles Ives, whose radical fusion of European classical style and American folk traditions created a fearless template for American music.
Charles Ives was an American composer.
- His father was a band leader during the Civil War.
- As a child, Ives heard marches, patriotic songs, and church music.
- These sounds later became part of his own music.
- Ives studied European classical music.
- He mixed classical music with American folk songs and other American sounds.
- He wrote a concert inspired by the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
- Ives wanted his music to sound different from traditional European music.
- His music reflected the energy and many different sounds of American life.
- His new ideas influenced other composers and musicians.
- Ives helped create a new and independent style of American music.
- Today, he is remembered as an important American composer.
POP Interview and Civics Quiz:
- N-400 Part 7:1. Have you had any other jobs in the past five years?
- USCIS 100:98. / 128:123. What is the name of the national anthem?
Family Fun:
- Clssics for Kids: Charles Ives
- Coolridge Nash: Charles Ives 114 Songs playlist
- Danbury Museum: Charles Ives Birthplace
- LA Philharmonic: Charles Ives Symphonies playist
- NPR: Charles Ives’ vision of America still strikes an unsettling chord | An American Maverick Turns The Symphony On Its Head | Classical Lost And Found: Charles Ives' 'Concord' Sonata As A Symphony
- New Yorker: Charles Ives, Connoisseur of Chaos
- Sergio Canovas: Orchestral Works of Charles Ives playlist
- Strange and Obscure Stories: The Man Who Invented Modern American Music (Charles Ives)
- Thomas Ligre: Charles Ives Songs playlist
- United States Marine Band: Variations on "America"
- uscitizenpod: Variations on America by Charles Ives coloring page
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