This question is among many ideas that the “Charles Ives at 150: Music, Imagination, and American Culture” festival seeks to explore. From Monday, Sept. 30 to Tuesday, Oct. 8, the Jacobs School of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Essay This pioneering composer is not the easiest to love. But while he explores the poison of American nationalism, his music also offers an antidote ...

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.

In his life, Charles Ives -- an iconoclast if there ever was one -- was busy with music, not collecting honors. At the same time, he was a man with a very deep sense of place. So it would be ...