Ives 4th symphony in Groningen

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I wasn't able to go -  :'(
In the Volkskrant today:

"The Fourth Symphony by the American musical outsider Charles Ives (1874-1954) is on the desk of 110 orchestral musicians and dozens of singers from the Netherlands Concert Choir. The immense piece was finished a century ago, but a complete implementation took another four decades. Since then it has been heard sporadically.

This is due to the large line-up: a considerably expanded orchestra plus extra percussion, choir, organ, theremin, celesta,  piano four hands, a piano that is tuned a quarter tone higher.
It is also because of what Ives pours over you: a cacophonous (but meticulously composed) pandemonium of simultaneous pieces of religious songs, folk tunes, patriotic melodies, quotes from well-known classical pieces and so on. They are stacked on top of each other in different rhythms and tempos.

Soundtrack from the early 20th century
Three conductors were needed to keep everything on track. This went very well, led by Anthony Hermus, who was appointed honorary conductor this evening.
Ives is an odd one out in the soundtrack of the early twentieth century. For that reason alone, it is worth experiencing this symphony live: as a reminder of the elusiveness of human creativity, which cannot be pigeonholed.

Ives' Fourth is modest in length at half an hour. That's why we were probably warmed up before the break with, yes, even more Ives. Hermus lets his strings rustle secretly in the silence that is not the silence of The Unanswered Question. And there they march in: two show bands with brass instruments make an appearance in Ives' Fourth of July, his thunderous sound collage of an American park on the national holiday."



https://nno.nu/concert/immens-indrukwekkend-ives



The concert will be broadcast on Dutch Radio 4, next Monday.



Dirigent    Antony Hermus
Dirigent    Henri Christofer Aavik
Dirigent    Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg
Piano    Ralph van Raat
Noord Nederlands Concert Koor/  Leendert Runia
Projectkoor / Merlijn Wackers
Showband Marum / Johan Boekema
Bicycle Showband Crescendo / Sietze Bandringa
Compositie projectkoor / Gijs Philip van Schaik

Ives    Unanswered Question
Ives    Holidays Symphony: The Fourth of July
Projectkoor : A sort of Ives / comp. Gijs Philip van Schaik
Showband Marum    Hallucinate arr. Sietze Bandringa   
Bicycle Showband Crescendo    Theme Formule 1
Cage    4'33"
Ives    Holidays Symphony: The Fourth of July
Showband Marum    Battle of the Hyme ? hymn?)
Bicycle showband Crescendo    The Gem of the Ocean
Ives    Symfonie no. 4


pjme

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The province of Groningen invited bands, percussion groups and (amateur) choirs. Love it!