A year or so ago, American music fans were decrying the fact that Charles Ives, in many ways the godfather of American classical music, was relatively little known among the American public. His house was up for sale by property developers and faced the very real threat of being bulldozed and turned into apartments or a convenience store or something. And not many people seemed to care all that much.
Are things turning around? CSO Sounds & Stories, the new music magazine from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, reports on the opening of the new Charles Ives studio exhibit at New York's American Academy of Arts and Letters. And the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has dedicated a new edition of its "Beyond The Score" series to understanding Ives's Second Symphony.
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