“Charles Ives Studio” Exhibition
American Academy of Arts and Letters
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The newly recreated Charles Ives Studio and accompanying exhibition opens in the galleries of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City.
The studio is a faithful replica of the room originally located on the ground floor of the Ives home in Redding, CT, where the renowned American composer Charles Ives worked for the last forty years of his life. It was there, on the studio’s modest upright piano, that Ives composed and finished several of his major works, including Three Places in New England, The Fourth Symphony, The Second Orchestral Set, The Fourth Violin Sonata, and about 40 songs.
In 2012, Charles Ives’s grandson, Charles Ives Tyler, donated the entire contents of the studio to the Academy for permanent exhibition. The studio had been largely untouched since Charles Ives’s death in 1954, and over 3,000 objects were catalogued and restored, including the studio’s furnishings and double doors, to which Ives himself pinned clippings, photos, and keepsakes. These are now installed in a replica of the studio in the Academy’s third-floor galleries, while an accompanying exhibition explores Ives’s life and work in Redding. It is the Academy’s hope that together these capture the essence of one of our preeminent American composers, whom Leonard Bernstein called, “Our first really great composer … our Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson of music.”
Henry N. Cobb, the Academy’s President, said, “In recreating the Ives Studio and preserving its contents in situ, our goal is to make this important documentary record permanently available to scholars and an interested public.” The Studio will be open during the Academy’s annual exhibitions and by appointment.
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Schedule
from May 21, 2015 to June 15, 2015
Thursdays through Sundays, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Closed May 22 - 24 for Memorial Day