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Charles Ives's Hawthorne.(Critical essay)

When a pianist friend recently asked if I was familiar with Charles Ives's Concord Sonata, I admitted total ignorance. He then told me that the sonata's second movement is entitled "Hawthorne," and the three others are entitled "Emerson," "The Alcotts," and "Thoreau." Although he had often performed those three, he had never mastered the "Hawthorne." My curiosity piqued, I decided to seek out Charles Ives's Hawthorne.

I began by calling on James Willey, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music at the State University of New York College at Geneseo. He sent me home with Gilbert Kalish's recording of the Concord Sonata ("the best," he thinks), a copy of Ives's Essays ...

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