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Charles Ives's America
Album No. 23 | Recorded 2003

 

Album Playlist

 

About the Album

Read the CD album booklet

Listen to album on YouTube

 

Tracks

PROLOGUE

1. Variations on "America" (orch. by William Schumann, trans. William E. Rhoads)

BATTLE CRIES OF FREEDOM

2. Overture and March "1776” (trans. James B. Sinclair)       

3. “They Are There!” (A War Song March) (trans. James B. Sinclair)

TOWN AND GOWN

4-8. Suite, Old Home Days (arr. Jonathan Elkus)

4. Waltz      

5. “The Opera House” and “Old Home Day”     

6. “The Collection”  

7. Slow March        

8. “London Bridge is Fallen Down!”        

9. March, “Intercollegiate” (edited by Keith Brion)

10. Fugue in C (trans. James B. Sinclair)

11. March, “Omega Lambda Chi” (edited by Keith Brion)      

12. Variations on “Jerusalem the Golden” (edited by Keith Brion)

13. March, “A Son of a Gambolier” (trans. Jonathan Elkus)

14. Postlude in F (trans. Kenneth Singleton      

"BAND STUFF"

15. Country Band March (trans. James B. Sinclair)     

16. “Decoration Day” from Four New England Holidays (trans. Jonathan Elkus)

HORSEPLAY

17. “Charlie Rutlage” (trans. James B. Sinclair)

18. March, “The Circus Band” (trans. Jonathan Elkus)

19. “Runaway Horse on Main Street” (reconstructed and edited by James B. Sinclair)       

20. March No. 6, “Here’s to Good Old Yale” (trans. by Jonathan Elkus)

EPILOGUE

21. “The Alcotts” (trans. Jonathan Elkus)

(from Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-1860)

© 1947 Associated Music Publishers