Charles Ives Quotes
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
Ives, Charles. Memos. Edited by John Kirkpatrick, W. W. Norton, 1972, p. 114.
The state of Michigan was trying to require adult welfare recipients to undergo random drug testing while adults not on welfare had the Constitutional right to be tested only if there was some reason to suspect them. See #.
What was so unusual about Mrs. Roosevelt was that she came from a very wealthy, upper class, family. She never had to work a day in her life; nor did the men in her family. Yet she learned about, understood, and empathized with the poor and their problems in a way that few “aristocrats” and politicians ever did.
Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer, one of the first American composers of international renown. His music was largely ignored during his early life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Later in life, the quality of his music was publicly recognized, and he came to be regarded as an "American original". He was also among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatory elements, and quarter tones. His experimentation foreshadowed many musical innovations that were later more widely adopted during the 20th century. Hence, he is often regarded as the leading American composer of art music of the 20th century.
