His Fourth Symphony was not performed in its entirety until 11 years after his death. Ives' music is characteristically vernacular in its inspiration. He frequently quotes hymn tunes and popular, patriotic and ragtime music in his compositions, but adapts these borrowings into new formal and sound contexts. Ives conceived many of the important 20th-century composing techniques such as polytonality and polyrhythmia. Here's to Good Old Yale.
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Weber's clarinet concerto and Copland's Symphony No.3. Admission is free. Admission is free. As an extension of the Celebration, the Yale Symphony Orchestra will perform the new critical edition of Ives' Symphony No.1, composed in part as a senior thesis at Yale, on April 25 at 8 p.m. in Woolsey Hall.