By Charles Ives
This authoritative quantity of 453 letters written via and to composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) offers exceptional perception into essentially the most awesome and paradoxical careers in American track heritage. the main entire choice of Ives's correspondence in print, this e-book opens an immediate window on Ives's complicated character and his inventive method. notwithstanding Ives spent a lot of his profession out of the mainstream music-making, he corresponded with a shockingly huge staff of musicians and critics, together with John J. Becker, Henry Bellamann, Leonard Bernstein, John Cage, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, Ingolf Dahl, Walter Damrosch, Lehman Engel, Clifton J. Furness, Lou Harrison, Bernard Herrmann, John Kirkpatrick, Serge Koussevitzky, John Lomax, Francesco Malipiero, Radiana Pazmor, Paul Rosenfeld, Carl Ruggles, E. Robert Schmitz, Nicolas Slonimsky, and Peter Yates.
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I wish it was last night and I had you—otherwise I am looking forward and it looks 1. All of Harmony Twichell’s letters were mailed from Hartford, Connecticut, unless otherwise indicated. 2. Andersonville, Georgia, was the sight of the largest Confederate prison for Union soldiers during the Civil War. As many as thirteen thousand inmates died there owing to overcrowding, lack of food, exposure, and poor sanitation. 36 courtship and marriage mighty good to me. Do you know how I love you and how perfectly I love you and how perfectly adorable you are altogether to me?
It is on the same paper as the letter of Monday evening, 28 October, and may be what Harmony refers to here. courtship and marriage 37 I found these Kodaks which may amuse you—haven’t you any of yourself ? Don’t think you have to keep them. You will recognize Sarah Holter. I’ve had a wonderful day only my feelings and thoughts are so much too much for my heart and brain that I don’t know what I’m going to do. What do you think? In church I thought all of a sudden of your Father—so intensely that the tears came into my eyes and I thought how much I love him—actually as if I’d known him—I almost felt him and I am sure he knows all about this and how dearly I love you and that your welfare is my happiness—And I thought of other things I can’t write about—I’ll tell you my best beloved when I see you.
I think it almost necessary that I should and if I don’t get any other good from it, just being a pupil of Buck’s would be very helpful. I think I can go about every 3 wks until about March or April. I think he charges $4. a lesson. Mr. Griggs who advised me to do it has made arrangements for next Thurs. at 5 o’c. 30 or 9 o’c. I have more time than I did, and no recitations Thurs afternoon. So I will go down any way next Thurs. unless I hear to the contrary from you. Please ask Moss to go up to Izzie Raymond’s and ask her for the copy of “Rock of Ages” which I wrote some time ago, and also ask Uncle Ly.
