Ives: Symphony No. 2 / The Gong on the Hook & Ladder, or Firemen's Parade on Main Street / Tone Roads No. 1 / Hymn: Largo Cantabile, for String Orchestra / Hallowe'en / Central Park in the Dark / The Unanswered Question
Ives mixes the European symphonic tradition with picturesque  elements of small-town New England -- hymn tunes, brass bands, revival  meetings. Ives' anarchic Yankee weirdness is manifest in the jarringly  insistent appearance of Columbia the Gem of the Ocean in his Second  Symphony, and the work's rude final blat. --Miami Herald, Lawrence Johnson, July 1st, 2007