Article: Charles Ives' Rambunctious 'Fourth Of July'

LIANE HANSEN
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
07-06-2008
Charles Ives' Rambunctious 'Fourth Of July'

Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time 1:00-2:00 PM


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LIANE HANSEN, host:

This Fourth of July Weekend, a lot of patriotic American music will be heard. However, one of America's greatest composers will get very little airtime, even though he wrote a piece called "Fourth of July." Charles Edward Ives was born in 1874. He lived until 1954. And Weekend Edition's classical music commentator Robert Greenberg joins us from the studios of KQED in San Francisco to tell us why we may want to reconsider listening to this piece over the holiday.

ROBERT GREENBERG: Ives is perhaps the first great truly ...

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