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Linn A. Pittman
 Aug 24, 06 - 10:52 AM |
Charles E. Ives, composer
I've been listening to Charles Ives' composition, The Celestial Country. It was performed only once at the Central Presbyterian Church circa 1902. I believe that was in a different building? Does anyone have information, stories, anectdotes about Ives and or the performance? Thank you so much, Linn Pittman |
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Douglas Grandgeorge, Pastor, Central Church
Oct 27th, 2006 - 5:52 AM |
Re: Charles E. Ives, composer
I have no stories to tell, but I will look around for people who may have some anecdotal information. I can tell you that when Charles Ives was our organist and Director of Music, we were located at fifty-seventh Street between Broadway and 7th Avenue. We purchased a lot there in 1869. Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church was moving from its former location at 19th Street and 5th Avenue to its present location at 55th and 5th. Central asked for their old building, was given it generously by 5th Avenue, and moved the building brick by brick and pew by pew to the new lot. It was here that the remarkable pastor, Rev. Dr. Wilton Merle-Smith, made the church one of the most powerful and respected in the Protestant world, his pastorate lasting from 1889 through 1920, when he health failed. During his ministry, Charles Ives time with Central occurred. |
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Hampson Sisler
Dec 4th, 2007 - 12:51 PM |
Re: Charles E. Ives, composer
True to his style of composition, I'm told that Charles Ives played the hymns in two different keys at the same time, to accommodate both the high and the low voices. But the cacophony was keen, and the people objected. That may have been the cause of his leaving Central Church in, I believe, 1903. |
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