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From: pad@mtgzm.UUCP (p.a.dunkin)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: ives
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 00:44:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 18 00:44:28 1985
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<<munch>>
Reference: <2843@decwrl.UUCP> <60@bbnccv.UUCP>, <2270@ut-sally.UUCP>
Concerning the original (organ) version of the Charles Ives "Variations
on America," crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) mentions:

>                    ... Ives's very American sense of humor ...

and says:

> Ives wrote ``America Variations'', by the way, when he was 16 or thereabouts.
> For himself.  Say what you will about Ives, he evidently was no slouch as
> an organist.

I remember hearing that Ives called the Variations "almost as much fun
as baseball."  And a friend who once played it (them?) in a recital said
that the composer's suggested tempo for the last variation is something
like "as fast as you can play the pedals."

Pat Dunkin (...!ihnp4!mtuxo!mtgzm!pad)