Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 26, 2007|Volume 36, Number 8

Music of Charles Ives will highlight
second ‘Yale at Carnegie’ concert

A concert devoted entirely to the songs of pioneering composer Charles Ives will be the next offering in the “Yale at Carnegie” series, to be held on Monday, Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. in Weill Recital Hall, 154 West 57th St., New York City.

Ives, who has been described as the composer “who helped give American music its voice,” graduated from Yale College in 1898, having studied music with the Yale School of Music’s (YSM) first dean, Horatio Parker.

During the concert, six singers — two current students and four alumni — will perform 37 songs by Ives. The performers are Edward Parks (baritone) of the Yale Opera program; Joshua Copeland (baritone) of Yale Opera and the Early Music, Oratorio and Chamber Music programs; plus distinguished YSM alumni and Metropolitan and City Opera members Leah Wool (mezzo), Tamara Mumford (mezzo), Jennifer Casey Cabot (soprano) and Ryan MacPherson (tenor), all of whom appear on Yale’s upcoming recording of Ives’ songs on the Naxos label.

This concert was organized by Doris Yarick-Cross, artistic director of Yale Opera and chair of the Voice and Opera Program at Yale. She is also responsible for the new recording of all 183 of Ives’ songs, performed by Yale singers and faculty, scheduled for release in early 2008. The six-CD collection will be the largest project that Naxos has undertaken.

Along with its new offerings at Carnegie Hall, Yale has launched a series of netcasts to share its wealth of historical recordings with the public. These include lectures and live music performances of historical and contemporary significance.

In conjunction with the Oct. 29 concert, Vivian Perlis and Libby van Cleve of the Oral History of American Music Project at Yale have compiled a 20-minute program of musical excerpts from the project’s archives and interviews with Ives’ family members, friends, business associates and colleagues. The netcast includes Henry Cowell, John Kirkpatrick, Lou Harrison, Nicolas Slonimsky, Elliott Carter and even Ives’ barber. The program concludes with a clip of Ives himself playing piano and singing “They Are There!” To access the netcast, go to Apple’s iTunesU site, www.itunes.yale.edu, or www.yale.edu/music/podcast.

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