Ives 4: The Way Things Work!
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- Опубликовано: 28 апр 2013
- Music Director Leonard Slatkin demonstrates how Charles Ives overlaps multiple musical themes at once in his Symphony No. 4!
Join Maestro Slatkin and the DSO in Carnegie Hall on May 10, 2013, performing all four Ives Symphonies. $25 tickets and more info available at dso.org/carnegie.
This is a great lecture. IVES was a consummate craftsman. IVES deserves to be honored with a namesake residential college at his alma mater.
I feel incredibly fortunate to have seen Maestro Slatkin conduct Ives' Fourth with the National Symphony Orchestra. I only wish there was a recording of it. Truly magnificent. Slatkin's understanding of Ives is as great as that of Michael Tilson-Thomas and Jan Swafford.
In addition to its utterly beautiful moments, I have found that Ives's music helps to keep me sane.
"This fascinating composer was exploring the 1960s during the heyday of Strauss and Debussy. Polytonality; atonality; tone clusters; perspectivistic effects; chance; statistical composition; permutation; add-a-part, practical-joke, and improvisatory music: these were Ives’ discoveries a half-century ago as he quietly set about devouring the contemporary cake before the rest of us even found a seat at the same table.” Stravinsky
I witnessed this work under Maestro Slatkin with the National Symphony Orchestra not too long ago. As he did before this Detroit performance, he took the audience behind the musical scenes and again illustrated a few sections. He mentioned that the clarinets played a rather off-put version of a hymn tune amongst the mayhem and had them perform the excerpt. In a few seconds a man got up and began to leave the concert hall. Mr. Slatkin paused and said to him, "You know, you really should stick around to hear how all of this comes out."
Really really awesome video! I could watch Symphony 4 for hours!
Wow, great discussion and examples! I love this work for so many years!
My favourite performance of the Ives 4th is the one conducted by Bernard Herrmann with the CBS Radio Symphony Orchestra. Herrmann promoted this symphony early on, long before Bernstein took any interest in it.
Maestro Stokowski's rendering is also of note
Herrmann didn't record this piece, nor did Bernstein ever conduct it.
@@poturbg8698 You have no idea what you are talking about. Get lost.
@@jslasher1 I'm going to ignore your hostility and give you the facts: Herrmann made an arrangement of the third movement and conducted it in 1933. He NEVER performed the whole Symphony 4; the first performance was conducted by Stokowski in 1965, and that was the first recording. Herrmann did record Ives **second** symphony, as did Bernstein (twice). But Bernstein never conducted Ives 4. If you have data to the contrary, please post it!
@@claudiasiefer8495 Stokowski conducted the first performance of the entire Symphony 4, and he led the first recording of it around the same time.
Wonderful!
Fascinating!
Where can i listen to it all?
ruclips.net/video/WTW9fqvZyAA/видео.html
Who is the young conductor?
Teddy Atkins.
@@andrewwilliams9599 Teddy Abrams . Native of Berkeley Ca.
I know that Slatkin's trying to help here , and to win over traditionally conservative mindsets with some charitable narrative... but unfortunately it does play to a lot of stereotypes and misunderstandings that surround Ives as well--but this is part of Ives' legacy; that kind of all-over-the-map appraisal of the man and his music. I think the best sources on Ives are his own Memos, and Jan Swafford's A Life with Music---
I recall reading a book that mentioned that Elliott Carter was at a performance of his own Concerto for Orchestra, which Slatkin was conducting. Carter was so annoyed at the idea of Slatkin doing a pre-performance explanation/lecture that he promptly left the hall during the little presentation.
"the Emerson poem 'The Celestial Railroad'" really?
OK so he said Emerson instead of Hawthorne. He got the rest of it right. Mr. Smooth-it-away will fix everything!
XD nice
well, except the fact that it's not a poem, it's a short story
i don't quite buy the necessity of 2 conductors here, each of whom are using only one arm to lead with. Nicolas Slonimsky speaks highly of Ives & also of ambidextrous conducting in differing time signatures