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Charles Ives (1874-1954) was probably one of the most psycho -
intellectually brilliant, imaginative and flexible Americans to
ever "walk the land of free-dom." A graduate of Yale, he became a
multi-millio-naire in the American insurance industry, introducing
brilliant innovations within that industry. He also, unlike a few
composers, found the time and the money (being a shrewd and
practical businessman) to get married and have children. His
accomplishments for which he is best known, however, are those in
the field of music. At the time of its composition, Ives' music was
probably the most radically modern in history, and by itself had
enough material to serve as the foundation of modern 20th century
music. For example, at the turn of the century, this eccentric
composer created band works featuring multiple melodies of multiple
time signatures opposing and complimenting each other within the
same piece. Ives was also a revolutionary atonal composer, who
created, essentially without precedent, many atonal works that not
only pre-date those of Schoenberg, but are just as sophisticated,
and arguably even more so, than those of the 12-tone serialist.
Timaeus is not an independent work. Rather, it is the premier
dialogue in an unfinished trilogy that also includes Critias, of
which we have only a fragment, and Hermocrates, which is forecast
in Critias but was presumably never written. There is demand, and
has been for some time now, for an account of the relevance between
the extant parts of the trilogy, namely the pertinence of Timaeus'
cosmology to Critias' war story. Over time this demand has been
refined. There is now a more specific interest in the relevance of
the cosmology to what is commonly known as "Socrates' Request"-that
is, what Socrates is asking of his interlocutors at the outset of
the trilogy. While Charles Ives certainly addresses the former,
more general demand, the primary concern in this book is with the
latter, given the obvious aptness of Critias' contribution.
Socrates, at least in part, is asking for a story about a war, and
Critias provides it. What is far from obvious is how Timaeus'
contribution fits into this picture. In order to illuminate the
nature of this contribution, Ives first establishes that Socrates
is asking for an encomium with two areas of focus, which will be
taken up by Critias and Timaeus. Critias will speak on war-more
precisely, on the war between ancient Athens and Atlantis. Timaeus
will speak on the warriors' education as philosophers, and in
particular on the formation and nature of the philosophical soul.
To show the relevance of Timaeus' speech to the request, Ives
highlights the educational aspects of the dialogue, charting the
progress of an educational program that aims at health. The book
especially focuses on the convalescence of intellect, which ushers
in discussions of the medical dimensions of Timaeus' physics; the
markedly Platonic project of becoming like god; and the
comprehensively philosophical soul that leads its possessor to
success on the battlefield. Socrates' Request and the Educational
Narrative of the Timaeus is written for those interested in ancient
philosophy and philosophy of education.
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony for this
performance of Charles Ives' Holidays Symphony, which was
originally broadcast by the American television channel PBS in 2009
as part of the 'Keeping Score' classical music series.
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Memos (Hardcover)
Charles Ives; Volume editing by John Kirkpatrick
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Andris Nelsons leads the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen
Rundfunks in a performance of Dvorák's 'Symphony 9 in E Minor'.
Also included are performances of Charles Ives' 'The Unanswered
Question'; John Adams' 'Slonimsky's Earbox'; and Igor Stravinsky's
'Le Chant du Rossignol'.
The substance of Hawthorne is so dripping wet with the
supernatural, the phantasmal, the mystical--so surcharged with
adventures, from the deeper picturesque to the illusive fantastic,
one unconsciously finds oneself thinking of him as a poet of
greater imaginative impulse than Emerson or Thoreau. He was not a
greater poet possibly than they--but a greater artist.
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