Episode 2
Donald Macleod explores how Ives's life and music were often closely intertwined. Including General William Booth Enters into Heaven.
With Donald Macleod. Ives's life and music were often closely intertwined, for example his so-called 'glory trance', General William Booth Enters into Heaven, vividly recalls the revivalist meetings of his youth.
General William Booth Enters into Heaven
William Sharp (baritone)
Steven Blier (piano)
String Quartet No 2
Lydian String Quartet
Three Places in New England
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor).
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