Twentieth-Century American Masters
Subtitle: Ives, Thomson, Sessions, Cowell, Gershwin, Copland, Carter, Barber, Cage, Bernstein (New Grove)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: October 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780393315882
First sentence: 1. UP TO 1899. Charles Edward Ives was the son of George E. Ives (1845-94), a versatile bandmaster whose parents were transcendentalists (according to family tradition Emerson was their guest when he lectured at Danbury in 1859), and Mary Elizabeth Parmelee (1849-1929), whose mother was a choir singer of local prominence; he was born in Danbury, Connecticut, on 20 October 1874.