Mad Music: Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel

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index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. Abbey Road studios, 218 Adams, John, 12 Adirondacks, 87, 114, 133, 143 American Academy of Arts and Letters, 248–49 American Field Service, 9, 169–70, 274n35 American Music Center, 244 anti-Semitism, 28, 116, 209, 219, 223–25, 282n65 Armstrong Investigation, 120–25, 156, 158 Arrau, Claudio, 243 Arrow Music Press, 9, 231, 244, 245, 246–47 Asheville, N.C., 177–78 Babitz, Sol, 225 Bach, J. S., 11, 39, 44, 45, 47, 85, 95, 105, 106, 263n26 Bailey, James Montgomery (“The Danbury News Man”), 21, 30, 73 Balanchine, George, 250 bands, “military,” 35 Baptist Church, Second (Danbury, Conn.), 18–20, 44, 45, 54, 57 Bartók, Béla, 188, 193, 212, 219 Bauer, Marion, 186, 224 Bauman, Mordecai, 221, 225 Becker, John, 147, 215, 234, 235, 236, 243; Ives’s generosity toward, 10, 230–32 Beethoven, Ludwig van: as classical music icon, 33, 93, 95, 100, 105, 106; and Concord Sonata, 162, 163; as model for Ives, 45, 69, 144, 161 Bellamann, Henry, 78, 192, 193 Berger, Arthur, 219, 221 Berlin, 211, 218, 224 Berlin Philharmonic, 219 Bernstein, Leonard, 224, 247, 251 Biggs, E. Power, 55 Blackwell, Carrie, 248 Boatwright, Howard, 179 Bonney, Charles, 58, 59, 61 Boston Symphony Orchestra, 192, 209, 211 Boulanger, Nadia, 199, 200, 220 Bradshaw, William M., 170, 171 Brahms, Johannes, 69, 83, 84, 105, 144 Brewster, Lyman, 40, 42, 43, 52, 88, 140; and Ives’s preparation for Yale entrance exam, 60, 62; and planned opera, 109–10; takes Ives to Columbian Exposition, 58–59 Brewster, Sarah Amelia Ives (“Aunt Amelia”), 6, 38, 43, 88, 109; and Ives family home, 22, 42, 45, 50; and Ives’s health, 114, 139; and Ives’s marriage, 138, 139–40, 171 Brooks, Henry Anderson, 40 Buck, Dudley, 45, 54, 59, 69 Buesing, Charles, 101, 155, 157, 240 298 • Index Burkholder, J. Peter, 76, 128, 144, 159, 173 Bushnell, Horace, 132–33 Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 187–88 Camp Upton (N.Y.), 169 Carter, Elliott, 149, 191–92, 203, 204, 222, 241–42, 246, 251, 284n36 CBS Symphony, 6 Center Church (New Haven, Conn.), 61, 62, 68, 84–86 Chadwick, George Whitefield, 80, 83, 84, 252 Chopin, Frédéric, 45, 105–6 Citkowitz, Israel, 220 Civil War, 26–27, 29, 53–54, 132, 151, 168, 208 classical music: sacralization of, 92–97; women as patrons of, 42, 95, 188 Columbian Exposition, 59 “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,” 109, 110, 144, 159, 160 Composers’ Collective, 223 Congregational Church, 23, 131–33 Congregational Church, First (Danbury , Conn.), 17, 18–20, 45 Congregational Church, Second (Danbury, Conn.), 44 Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague, 188–89 Copland, Aaron, 9, 113, 188, 200, 220, 223, 224; view of Ives, 14, 15, 16, 221, 227–29, 243, 251 Cowell, Henry: arrest and imprisonment , 233–36; biography of Ives, 196, 249; as composer, 202, 210, 211, 212, 231; as editor of Ives’s scores, 247, 249; Ives’s financial support of, 9, 10, 202–3, 204–5, 229, 230; as promoter of modern music, 200, 204, 208, 210–11, 219, 220, 223, 229; upbringing and character, 200–202, 218, 224 Cowell, Sidney, 236, 249 Damrosch, Frank, 80 Damrosch, Leopold, 94 Damrosch, Walter, 71, 94, 95, 149–50, 162 Danbury, Conn.: churches, 18–20, 42, 44, 45; and Civil War, 26–27; hatting industry, 20–22, 24–25, 30; immigration and population, 20–21, 29–30, 42; Ives family prominence in, 24–25; music in, 35, 51; rural character of, 17–20 Danbury Academy, 45 Danbury Band, 38, 40–41, 42, 57 Danbury Savings Bank, 18–20, 20, 25, 52, 56 Davis, Curtis, 246 Debussy, Claude, 188, 191, 203 defamiliarization, 56, 162 Delta Kappa Epsilon, 72, 75 Denk, Jeremy, 109, 110–11, 162 diabetes: “atypical,” 171, 275n38; pre-insulin treatment and prognosis of, 172–73. See also Ives, Charles Edward: diabetes Doráti, Antal, 114 “Dorrnance,” 141, 161 Double Dealer, 192, 193 Downes, Olin, 203–4 Dvořák, Antonín, 69, 80, 92, 144 East Rock (New Haven, Conn.), 70, 265n19 Echols, Paul, 250 Eichheim, Henry, 188 Eisler, Paul, 182–83 Index • 299 Elk Lake (N.Y.), 143, 149 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 5, 7, 24, 25 Engel, Lehman, 225; as conductor and publisher of Ives’s music, 9, 91, 219, 224, 245; on Ives’s personality, 1, 4, 194, 231–32 England, 197, 217, 218, 236 Feder, Stuart, 148, 173, 248, 269n29, 274n35 Felsburg, George, 74...