Re: [ARSCLIST] Ives' Universe Symphony

[David Lewis <davlew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's easy - 
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=43:128916

This is the Johnny Reinhard edition, which makes the most sense and is
the most "ivesian." This is also one of the greatest sound recordings 
ever made in my opinion - even if you hate Ives there's no denying how
three-dimensional and lifelike this is.

I guarantee this will NOT turn up at your local Best Buy. But it's easy
to order from here

http://www.stereosociety.com/index.html

And I should say that it wasn't "aborted" - a lot of Ives' verbal
descriptions of it are quite precise, and that, taken with his extant
sketches and the difficult to read verbal comments on those, are enough to
raise the whole. He just didn't have the stamina to pull together a full
score by himself.

David N. Lewis
Assistant Classical Editor, All Music Guide
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Ann Arbor, MI 48108
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silent." - Victor Hugo

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Subject: [ARSCLIST] Ives' Universe Symphony

Personal question here..

Been reading about Ives' aborted Universe Symphony lately (again) and was 
wondering if anyone could recommend a definitive version that I might track 
down to hear. The word "definitive" is obviously relative in this case -- I 
know, I know.. -- since any version out there is nothing more than 
interpretation of how the thing *might* have sounded were it completed. 
Shades of 'Eyes Wide Shut', you might say. (Only...y'know...less Ligeti and 
more Ives.)

Anyway, this may be a wild goose chase. I don't know. Perhaps the only 
recordings out there are boots. That's why I'm asking..

facing the full force of a dissonance like a man,
Brandon



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