[rollei_list] WAY OT: Charles Ives was: Re: Re: Copyright Law
- From: Aaron Reece <oboeaaron@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:54:52 -0500
On Dec 3, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Eric Goldstein wrote:
Or
composers such as Copland and Ives?
Ives is one of my favorite composers, not so much because of his music
but because his difficult and irascible personality just shines
through even decades after his death. Ives did not of course die
penniless, but that's because he gave up the idea of composing
professionally and became vice-president of an insurance company, as
well as writing a standard textbook on insurance, which interestingly
enough is entitled "Life Insurance with Relation to Inheritance Tax."
But by eschewing the life of professional musician, he was able to
write strikingly original music decades before there would be a market
for such stuff. He did not want his family to "starve on his
dissonances."
I seem to recall that he was graduated from Yale with a degree in
Music with a D average.
"There is a great Man living in this country—a composer.
He has solved the problem how to preserve one's self and to learn.
He responds to negligence by contempt.
He is not forced to accept praise or blame.
His name is Ives."
-Arnold Schoenberg
Best wishes,
Aaron---
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