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Steve, reviewing a recording of Ives songs:
>There have been outstanding recorded recitals of this music, beginning
>with Mordecai Bauman's pioneering 78s. Although his diction could be a
>bit too precise, he nevertheless sang Ives as if it were the most natural
>thing in the world. His rendition of the fate of cowpuncher "Charlie
>Rutlage," along with native-born Texan Thomas Stewart's, is the finest
>I've heard. Other outstanding recorded programs dedicated to Ives include
>Marni Nixon (available on EMI), Evelyn Lear and the aforementioned Thomas
>Stewart, and Gregg Smith's Ives series for Columbia, which I don't believe
>ever made it to CD.
My late close friend Richard Burns, once of Yale, later recording
engineer at Syracuse University, had tapes of Ives himself singing some
of his songs. A great voice he did not have, but there is always some
interest in hearing something like this, at least for a while--I remember
it becoming wearying after a while. I have no idea what happened to the
tapes after Dick died. They might have ended up in Yale's archives.
Roger Hecht
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