Introduction / A Life with Ives / His Music is About Us / Influence

Artists on Art: John Heiss on Charles Ives / Discovery

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General William Booth Enters Into Heaven (1914) by Charles Ives

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Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes (1942) by Aaron Copland

Symphony No. 3 - III. Communion (1910) by Charles Ives

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