Award-winning music historian and IU Musicology Distinguished Professor Emeritus J. Peter Burkholder has spent a lifetime exploring the life and work of Charles Ives. Although he retired in 2019, Burkholder remains an active researcher and has just released a new book, titled Listening to Charles Ives: Variations on His America (Rowman & Littlefield).
Burkholder is also the author of Charles Ives: The Ideas Behind the Music and All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing. He is the editor of Charles Ives and His World, co-editor of Charles Ives and the Classical Tradition, and has served as president of the Charles Ives Society.
This work “provides an introduction to the composer’s diverse musical output and unusual career” by exploring forty of his most characteristic pieces within the context of his life. Read more here.
Congratulations, Prof. Burkholder!
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