Putnam's Camp by Charles Ives 1978

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Interesting piece

[bannan61]

@TheMusicAficionado Very comical. The performance is from 1978.

[clucaspik]

Amazing - with absolutely no musical models, this pieace has the exact effect he intended it to have - if you put 3 or so marching bands on the same field, all of them marching around playing, and the listener in a stationary position, it would sound exactly like this, cacaphonous perfection.

[ClothCanopyUnfurled]

As much as I want to like the music of Ives, being that I come from the area he came from, grew up on the road where this piece is dedicated to, etcetera, I really don't think his music sounds very good. I suppose it is a matter of opinion, but something in me is telling me it is simply poor music.

[delta9tetrahydroca]

Charles Ives, another American genius

[Chesterton7]

wonderful performance of an amazing piece

[SaraZee67]

woah, it leaves you kind of breathless... :D

[visitinghours]

Excellent. Thanks for uploading!

[UltrasonicMailman]

How appropriate a school band is playing this piece. Ives favored amateur bands over professional ones, and I'm sure he would be delighted to see this.

[cookiesonsteve]

wow that sounds complicated for it being one piece of music

[bannan61]

For a school orchestra such as this it's a big challenge. For the pros - no problem.

[georgexxx83]

Is it a challenge to keep count and stay together when performing this piece?

[Cramnella]

Of course, but the great thing about it is it doesn't matter if you do or not. Charlie won't mind.

[zoltai9]

the end of this piece is shocking!

Very, very potent...

[bannan61]

Do you mean the music is shocking or the performance by the Leicestershire Schools Orchestra?

[zoltai9]

ha ha, I mean the brilliant abruptness of the music.

[thejazztenor]

@bannan61 lol

[tomibk]

Do u have the other 2 parts as well? would love to hear it? Greets

[koolaidjohnson5]

i sure enjoy this sandwich!

[Evilthings]

I thought this peice was Country Band March?

[bannan61]

No, it's called Putnam's Camp. It's taken from Charles Ives "Three places in New England".

[zoltai9]

this was the first Ives piece I ever heard - and couldn't help feel overwhelmed with a sense of liberation; this was aided by the discovery of Stravinski around the same period in my teens, so sooo long go.

[findingusernamesucks]

haha, same thing happened to me but it was about a year ago . . . some things never change, thank god.

[celloguy]

They are very similar - Putnam's Camp derives a lot, if not most of its material from Country Band march.

[iaddenfoeb]

Amazing!

[TheBlackPage1]

This is great, thanks for sharing !

[PatMcHugh]

Thank you for posting this! This was a splendid performance. It was a very good idea to have this moving a little slower than usual. Too many times have I heard 'Putnam's Camp' played at break-neck speed and in consequence so much gets lost for the listener. In this performance, however, you can really hear all the layers of sound thanks to the steadier pace.