Charles Ives and Carl Ruggles, New England Transcendentalists and maverick
composers of the early twentieth century, left a legacy of iconoclastic
music. My work has focused on the entire canon of these composers,
especially the works that they left unfinished—some merely in sketch form.
The pianist, editor, and colleague of Ives and Ruggles, John Kirkpatrick
(1906-1991), with whom I studied, assembled various of the sketches into
performable editions. I am the President and Treasurer of The Charles Ives Society The Uncovered Ruggles and The Unknown Ives, Volume II, are available now at Amazon.com. The Unknown Ives (volume 1), originally released on CRI, can be purchased by contacting me. I am General Editor for Piano Works at The Ives Society. In 2018-19 piano music by Ives will be published by Peer Classical and AMP/G. Schirmer: The Complete Shorter Piano Works of Charles Ives Volume 1 (Marches); Volume 2 (Studies); Volume 3 (Miscellaneous) You can purchase the Charles Ives Society Critical Edition of "Shorter Works for Piano, Vol 2: STUDIES" here. "[The Unknown Ives, Volume II]...offers the Ives collector more thorny, visionary, knuckle-busting material to delight and amaze. 16 pages of detailed notes help us see the composer through his music in a way which is a model of annotation."—Records International
"From the first line of Songs my Mother Taught Me, I am captivated by this New World release" —James North, FANFARE March 2009
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