{"id":115835,"date":"2024-10-19T05:40:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T22:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115835"},"modified":"2024-10-19T05:40:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T22:40:49","slug":"a-messy-vision-of-america-remains-unsettling-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115835","title":{"rendered":"A messy vision of America remains unsettling : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"storytext\">\n<div id=\"resg-s1-28734\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap has-source-dimensions\" data-crop-type=\"\" style=\"&#10;        --source-width: 2956;&#10;        --source-height: 2217;&#10;    \">\n        <picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2956x2217+0+28\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F70%2Fcc%2Fa3170dff4a918a1240de30fc77b5%2Fgettyimages-515448974.jpg\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/webp\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2956x2217+0+28\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F70%2Fcc%2Fa3170dff4a918a1240de30fc77b5%2Fgettyimages-515448974.jpg\" data-format=\"webp\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2956x2217+0+28\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F70%2Fcc%2Fa3170dff4a918a1240de30fc77b5%2Fgettyimages-515448974.jpg\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2956x2217+0+28\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F70%2Fcc%2Fa3170dff4a918a1240de30fc77b5%2Fgettyimages-515448974.jpg\" data-format=\"jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2956x2217+0+28\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F70%2Fcc%2Fa3170dff4a918a1240de30fc77b5%2Fgettyimages-515448974.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2956x2217+0+28\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F70%2Fcc%2Fa3170dff4a918a1240de30fc77b5%2Fgettyimages-515448974.jpg\" data-format=\"jpeg\"\/>\n        <\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption\" aria-label=\"Image caption\">\n<p>\n                An undated photograph of composer Charles Ives (1874-1954). Pianist Jeremy Denk says &#8220;The crusty American composer had no shortage of utopian visions.&#8221;<br \/>\n                <b class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    Bettman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><br \/>\n                <b class=\"hide-caption\"><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <b class=\"toggle-caption\"><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Bettman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One hundred-fifty years ago, a mild-mannered insurance man was born in the small Connecticut town of Danbury. On nights and weekends, he composed music, most of which went unperformed in his lifetime. His name is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/90901153\/charles-ives\">Charles Ives<\/a>, and after he died in 1954, his reputation slowly grew as America\u2019s first truly original composer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"resnx-s1-5108686-100\" class=\"bucketwrap internallink insettwocolumn inset2col \">\n<div class=\"bucket img\">\n                  <a class=\"imagewrap\" id=\"featuredStackSquareImage211439483\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/deceptivecadence\/2013\/08\/12\/211439483\/an-american-maverick-turns-the-symphony-on-its-head\" data-metrics-ga4=\"{&quot;category&quot;:&quot;recirculation&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:&quot;story_recirculation_click&quot;,&quot;clickType&quot;:&quot;inset box&quot;,&quot;clickUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.npr.org\\\/sections\\\/deceptivecadence\\\/2013\\\/08\\\/12\\\/211439483\\\/an-american-maverick-turns-the-symphony-on-its-head&quot;}\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2013\/08\/13\/charles-ives_sq-f45cb1c6ee8db4c248f449f92fb21c4ceaab4af2.jpg?s=100&amp;c=15&amp;f=jpeg\" data-original=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2013\/08\/13\/charles-ives_sq-f45cb1c6ee8db4c248f449f92fb21c4ceaab4af2.jpg?s=100&amp;c=100&amp;f=jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2013\/08\/13\/charles-ives_sq-f45cb1c6ee8db4c248f449f92fb21c4ceaab4af2.jpg?s={width}&amp;c={quality}&amp;f={format}\" data-format=\"webp\" class=\"img lazyOnLoad\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2013\/08\/13\/charles-ives_sq-f45cb1c6ee8db4c248f449f92fb21c4ceaab4af2.jpg?s=100&amp;c=15&amp;f=jpeg\" data-original=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2013\/08\/13\/charles-ives_sq-f45cb1c6ee8db4c248f449f92fb21c4ceaab4af2.jpg?s=100&amp;c=100&amp;f=jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2013\/08\/13\/charles-ives_sq-f45cb1c6ee8db4c248f449f92fb21c4ceaab4af2.jpg?s={width}&amp;c={quality}&amp;f={format}\" data-format=\"jpeg\" class=\"img lazyOnLoad\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2013\/08\/13\/charles-ives_sq-f45cb1c6ee8db4c248f449f92fb21c4ceaab4af2.jpg?s=100&amp;c=100&amp;f=jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2013\/08\/13\/charles-ives_sq-f45cb1c6ee8db4c248f449f92fb21c4ceaab4af2.jpg?s={width}&amp;c={quality}&amp;f={format}\" data-format=\"jpeg\" class=\"img lazyOnLoad\" alt=\"An American Maverick Turns The Symphony On Its Head\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/picture><\/a>         <\/p>\n<p><!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKETBLOCK\" -->\n      <\/div>\n<p><!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKET IMG\" -->\n   <\/div>\n<p><!-- END ID=\"RESNX-S1-5108686-100\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK INSETTWOCOLUMN INSET2COL \" --><\/p>\n<p>To mark the anniversary, pianist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/148914270\/jeremy-denk\">Jeremy Denk<\/a> has released the album <em>IVES DENK<\/em>, with violinist Stefan Jackiw. It contains Ives\u2019 four violin sonatas and his two massive piano sonatas &#8212; some of the composer\u2019s most personal, thorny, confounding and beautiful music.<\/p>\n<p>Ives was a free thinker who wrote music that sounds decades ahead of its time. His wildest ideas were inherited from his father George, a musical jack-of-all-trades and Danbury\u2019s bandleader who instructed his son to sing songs in one key and play the accompaniment in another. In his memoirs, dictated to a secretary in 1930, Ives remembers his father saying, \u201cIf you know how to write a fugue the right way, then I\u2019m willing to have you try the wrong way.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap backstage\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>So much of Ives\u2019 music sounds, at least at first hearing, like it was indeed composed the \u201cwrong way.\u201d Ives challenged traditional music theory. In his Violin Sonata No. 2, played with a singular controlled frenzy by Denk and Jackiw, the hymn \u201cCome thou Fount of Every Blessing\u201d barges in, ecstatic, above a piano gone bonkers.<\/p>\n<p>Ives was obsessed with all of the music around him. You never know when snippets of popular church hymns, circus marches, parlor songs or ragtime ditties might weasel their way into a piece. In Ives\u2019 day, his listeners might have thought he was simply playing off popular culture, but in his singular, rugged way, Ives is telling us these songs are part of the gravel that pours into the foundation of American music. In the ramshackle, ragtime-inflected middle movement of the Violin Sonata No. 3 you can hear Ives tinkering with the music, stopping and starting as if he\u2019s trying out ideas on the spot.<\/p>\n<div id=\"resnx-s1-5108686-101\" class=\"bucketwrap video youtube-video large\">\n<p>\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jeremy Denk - Ives&#039; Violin Sonata No. 3: II. Allegro (w\/Stefan Jackiw) (Official Audio)\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3RhsXJccx2o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p>                <b class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    <b class=\"source\">YouTube<\/b><br \/>\n                <\/b>\n        <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>His ideas didn\u2019t always land favorably. About the First Violin Sonata, which premiered in San Francisco in 1928 at a concert series designed by Henry Cowell, Ives recalled the day when he invited an acclaimed violinist to his home to perform the piece. \u201cHe didn\u2019t even get through the first page,\u201d Ives wrote in his memoir. \u201cHe was all bothered with the rhythms and the notes, and he got mad. He said, \u2018This cannot be played. It is not music. It makes no sense.\u2019\u201d Denk places the sonata among Ives\u2019 most aspiring works and describes its eerie central movement in the album liner notes as \u201ca jagged musical reflection on the Civil War.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-secondary-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap secondary\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>There\u2019s a kind of freewheeling, \u201cWatch me build it,\u201d swagger in Ives\u2019 music that sounds unmistakably American. Although these pieces were composed over 100 years ago, they sound surprisingly contemporary.<\/p>\n<p>Ives began working on his Piano Sonata No. 1 around 1915, but it would have to wait another 34 years for its public debut. The crepuscular opening movement sounds innocent enough, like something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15033230\/johannes-brahms\">Brahms<\/a> might have written had he lived another dozen years. Ives quotes both a hymn and a cowboy song &#8212; in Ives the sacred and profane often collide. Some 25 minutes later, just before the ominous final movement, the music couldn\u2019t sound more contrary as the hymn \u201cBringing in the Sheaves\u201d stumbles in, dangerously belligerent. Denk\u2019s performance is deliciously unhinged.<\/p>\n<p>Ives believed in the utopian possibilities of music. So it\u2019s no surprise that his Piano Sonata No. 2, subtitled \u201cConcord, Mass., 1840-1860,\u201d is inspired by American transcendentalists. It\u2019s a mammoth, all-encompassing work \u2014 separate portraits of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorn, and the Alcotts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"resnx-s1-5108686-102\" class=\"bucketwrap video youtube-video large\">\n<p>\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jeremy Denk - Ives&#039; Piano Sonata No. 2 (&quot;Concord, Mass., 1840\u20131860&quot;): The Alcotts (Offical Audio)\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-VxVYI2mN6g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p>                <b class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    <b class=\"source\">YouTube<\/b><br \/>\n                <\/b>\n        <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yet common threads are woven through. Right off the bat, at the opening of the \u201cEmerson\u201d movement, there\u2019s a nod to Beethoven\u2019s 5th heard low in the left hand. That da-da-da-daaa theme will eventually evolve into some of Ives\u2019 most tender music in the movement titled \u201cThe Alcotts.\u201d At another point in the sonata\u2019s \u201cHawthorn\u201d section, Ives specifies that a narrow wooden board, exactly 14 -3\/4 inches long, be used to depress multiple keys at once. The result is a mysterious cloud of notes in the right hand that floats in opposition to a melody of arpeggiated chords in the left. It could have been just a gimmick, but Ives makes it work beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>These performances by Denk and Jackiw are both delicate and muscular &#8211;like Ives\u2019 music, which is filled with contradictions, failure, grace and vision. And it would be difficult to find more satisfying liner notes than those by Denk, whose 2022 memoir <em>Every Good Boy Does Fine<\/em> offers the same blend of perception and wit. For this album, he sums up the composer for us in 2024, saying that Ives is \u201coptimistic but always messy, always falling apart at the seams. His music suggests America will just have to muddle through, and wrestle with its own failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-third-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap third\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>An album of Ives music, especially one as well played and thought provoking as <em>Ives Denk<\/em>, is worth engaging with at any time, regardless of the sesquicentennial. That it has been released during an election season fraught with opposing views of what it means to be an American adds a distinct gravitas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/10\/18\/nx-s1-5108686\/jeremy-denk-charles-ives-review\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An undated photograph of composer Charles Ives (1874-1954). 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