Ed Zubrow ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>3.  Mahler returned from America to Europe having been fascinated by an
>Ives' symphony score (I'm sorry I didn't catch which one).  Unfortunately,
>he died before he could conduct it. ...

The Third Symphony. He may even have rehearsed it.

>5.  Lastly, I was intrigued by the story of one actual event that found
>its way into his music.  On some holiday two bands started from opposite
>ends of the main street in town.  They marched towards each other playing
>different songs.  They crossed and then marched away from each other still
>playing their own separate marches.

Not sure this was one incident, rather typical of Ives' home town of
Danbury CT.  It is an effect he used numerous times - oerhaps most notably
in The Fourth of July.

Deryk Barker
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