On 2009-04-06 Peter T. Gillette, wrote: With most scholarly periodicals now digitized and searchable through JSTOR and Project Muse, collections like these risk becoming dinosaurs and--or rather, unnecessary. Not so with this collection. The articles are of course diverse and thought-provoking (especially when read alongside other Ives scholarship), especially cogent walk-through of Ives´ un-summarizable political beliefs and how they play out in his wartime works. But where this collection really shines is in the excellent primary sources appended to the back of the collection, giving a more-or-less thorough-going account of Ives´ contemporaneous reception and saving the casual researcher hours spent paging through musty old periodicals to find a single citation. The generous selections from Ives´ letters whet the appetite as well and draw connections between Ives and the American musical avant-garde more effectively than secondary scholarship on the same topic. I picked this up in a used book store about a year ago, and while it shouldn´t be your first Ives book, it is a valuable companion to the many Ives bios and studies. . And summed up by saying Excellent Collection of Primary Sources. Currently Charles Ives and His World has an overall rating of 10 over 10.
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J. Burkholder claimed This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways. Five new essays examine Ives´s relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. J. Peter Burkholder shows Ives as a composer well versed in four distinctive musical traditions who blended them in his mature music. Leon Botstein explores the paradox of how, in the works of Ives and Mahler, musical modernism emerges from profoundly antimodern sensibilities. David Michael Hertz reveals unsuspected parallels between one of Ives´s most famous pieces, the Concord Piano Sonata, and the piano sonatas of Liszt and Scriabin. Michael Broyles sheds new light on Ives´s political orientation and on his career in the insurance business, and Mark Tucker shows the importance for Ives of his vacations in the Adirondacks and the representation of that landscape in his music. The remainder of the book presents documents that illuminate Ives´s personal life. A selection of some sixty letters to and from Ives and his family, edited and annotated by Tom C. Owens, is the first substantial collection of Ives correspondence to be published. Two sections of reviews and longer profiles published during his lifetime highlight the important stages in the reception of Ives´s music, from his early works through the premieres of his most important compositions to his elevation as an almost mythic figure with a reputation among some critics as America´s greatest composer.
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