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Happy Birthday, Mr. Ives

Listen to just about anything Charles Ives wrote—his symphonies, his songs, his monumental Piano Sonata—and you may experience a range of simultaneous emotions: awe, nostalgia, exhilaration, but also perhaps bewilderment. Ives remains, in his) by Princeton historian Allen C. Guelzo, Yale art historian Tim Barringer, and Indiana University musicologist J. Peter Burkholder.

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