Table of Contents

1. White city, green hills; 2. American arcady; 3. Memory and the greatest war; 4. Born in America; 5. The gilded age was the golden age; 6. Bright college years and dismal; 7. Manhood at Yale and beyond; 8. Giving up music - taking up business; 9. Ives in love; 10. The creative decade; 11. Trilogy; 12. World and cosmos; 13. Shadow and sunrise.

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A biography of the great American composer, Charles Ives (1874–1955).

Reviews

' ... full of musical insights.' Michael Church, The Independent 'Feder sensitively charts the tragedies and disappointments of Ives's life ...' The Musical Times 'Feder charts the course of Ive's life and work with obvious empathy ... listeners new to Ives will come away with a real sense of the composer drawing on his idealised past to create music of a utopian future.' Gramophone