On 2009-12-16 ImageMD, Miami, FL USA wrote: This is a captivating biography by an author who treats Ives´ music, life and times with great skill and respect. Ives was neither a struggling musician nor a political radical, but a full member of the American middle class. He majored in music at Yale and then became a successful co-owner of a New York life insurance agency. He created music without commissions or patrons. His musical creations were personal expressions, with a conviction and an aesthetic all his own. His modernism was uniquely American relying on the sounds and memories of his youth in Danbury, Connecticut. This is a comprehensive biography of a remarkable man.. And summed up by saying Captivating Biography. Currently Charles Ives: A Life with Music has an overall rating of 10 over 10.
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W.W. Norton & Co. claimed An illuminating portrait of a man whose innovative works profoundly influenced the course of twentieth-century American classical music. Jan Swafford´s colorful biography first unfolds in Ives´s Connecticut hometown of Danbury, then follows Ives to Yale and on to his years in New York, where he began his double career as composer and insurance executive. The Charles Ives that emerges from Swafford´s story is a precocious, well-trained musician, a brilliant if mercurial thinker about art and life, and an experimenter in the spirit of Edison and the Wright brothers. A National Book Critics Circle nominee and a New York Times Notable Book.
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