Susan Juhl ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>The third movement is the double fugue, and was beautiful. In the talk
>after the concert, MTT spoke of moments of beauty that bring you back to
>look at a whole work. If the composer gave such pleasure here, the rest of
>the work must be worth knowing.
While yielding to none in my love and admiration for Ives 4 (I bought my
copy of the Stokowski LP over 30 years ago), this argument doesn't hold
water, because the fugue is a transcription of the opening movement of
Ives First String Quartet.
Deryk Barker
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