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Article: Charles Ives, A Life with Music.
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- American Scholar
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- January 1, 1998
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Reviewed by ROBERT C. JONES
In an article about Charles Ives and his music published in the November 1946 issue of Listen, Lou Harrison wrote:
I suspect that the works of Ives are a great city, with public and private places for all, and myriad sights in all directions. . . . In the not-too-distant future it may be that we will enter this city and find each in his own way his proper home address, letters from the neighbors, and indeed all of a life, for who else has built a place big enough for us, or seen to it that all were equally and justly represented?
Such is the work of Ives, and if we here, in the United States, are still really homeless of the ...