Charles Ives 12. "General William Booth..." by Jay Poff & The Lee Univ. Chorale

"It's not a difficult song vocally...no, it's difficult mentally. Unless the mind grasps and senses a tone from the ear, the voice can't sing it." To sing intervals that lead away from tonality and usual progressions is not physically impossible -- any more than it is for a Hotel de Luxe lady to ride third class -- it may be hard for her seat but good for her soul. What seems hard to start with -- a "raucous interval" -- after a while of labor for a generation, will become just a natural, if not the strongest, part of the armor. General Booth... imagines the triumphant march into Heaven of the English revivalist, William Booth, at the head of the Salvation Army, which he had founded, and the souls he had helped to save. Ives incorporates: Elisha Hoffman's Are You Washed In the Blood?; Lowell Mason's Fountain; Oh, Dem Golden Slippers, a minstrel tune written by James A. Bland; Ira D. Sankey's Onward, Upward; and lastly, Reveille.

This song features The Lee University Chorale conducted by Dr. William Green. Accompanists, Mary Beth Wicks and Bethanie Klob

Bibliography / Discography for
"For Your Ives Only" - A Tribute to Charles E. Ives

Burkholder, J. Peter. Charles Ives - THE IDEAS BEHIND THE MUSIC.
Yale University Press, 1985.

Burkholder, J. Peter. Charles Ives and His World.
Princeton University Press, 1996.

Dickinson, Peter. Charles Ives Songs, Vol. 1.
Unicorn-Kanchana Records, London, 1991.

Dickinson, Peter, Charles Ives Songs, Vol. 2.
Unicorn-Kanchana Records, London, 1991.

Cowell, Henry. Charles Ives and his music.
Oxford University Press, Inc., 1955.

Feder, Stuart. Charles Ives: "My Father's Song" A Psychoanalytic Biography. Yale University Press, 1992.

Ives, Charles E., Kirkpatrick, John, Memos. W.W. Norton & Company, 1972.

Kronos Quartet. Black Angels. ELEKTRA ENTERTAINMENT, 1990.

Lambert, Philip. Ives Studies. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Rossiter, Frank R. Charles Ives & His America.
George J McLeod Limited, 1975.

Sinclair, James. They are There!. Peer Music International, 1975.

Swafford, Jan. Charles Ives -- A Life with Music. W.W. Norton& Company, 1996.

Perlis, Vivian. Charles Ives Songs. Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records, 1976.

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• Jay Poff
• Charles Ives
• Brett Hyberger
• Lee University
• James Sinclair
• Phillip Haynie
• classical
• Phi Mu Alpha SINFONIA

[violinbird]

This is the first piece in my music history class that has been in English. We finally get to a language I can understand, and I can't understand the music at all. But I love it!

[biketowork1]

Wow! Really good. Solo, piano, chorus all did wonderful job.

[kevieg3]

Thank you, Jay! I have been looking for this tune here for ages! I was privilidged be among the Chorus when it was performed for the Ives Centenial Concert at the Fairgrounds, Danbury, CT, July Fourth, 1974: McHenry Boatwright, Baritone; M Tilson-Thomas conducting. Leonard Bernstien was there, too, doing the Sym #2 with the National Sym Orch. "Circus Band" was also on the program (Chorus and Orchestra version).

A Day never to be forgotten. Thanks again for sharing your wonderful performance.