Klarinet Archive - Posting 000227.txt from 2001/06

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] pop a pill
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 23:12:32 -0400

--- Jim Hobby <jhobby@-----.net> wrote:

> (Neil: I took your message concerning Ives harmonies the way you intended:
> as a joke. He's not the only composer who I have wondered if they're still
> living back in the sixties and are getting over a "bad trip". <g>)

So Ives was ahead of "his time" in more ways than one, you might say:

(1) His music was revolutionary for its unconventional bitonalities,
polyrhythms, and quotations...and

(2) He died (1954) before he could claim to have lived in the 60's!

Neil

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