Variations on "America", Charles Ives

Second selection on Junior Recital (April 3rd, 2009). Justin Maxey, Organist. Played on the 39-rank, 1950s Holtkamp Organ in Brookes Chapel on the Shorter College Campus.

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• Junior Recital

[jmaxorgano]

@riverscuomo06: I skip the bitonal interludes because they were added later to this composition and I personally feel they detract from piece and are not in the same compositional style as the original. Thanks for asking!

[coryjor]

Excellent job! It sounded really great, and thanks for the explanation about the bitonal interludes--I had not realized that they were added later. Were they added by Ives, or someone else? Do you know the story on them?

[riverscuomo06]

why do you skip parts? what you played sounds sweet though....not an easy piece.

[montanasweaterman]

This composition requires incredibly facile skill and you acquited yourself very well. The registration was excellent and the performance was impressive. This obviously excellent organ certainly suffers from a very acoustically dead environment. I would very much appreciate hearing you perform in a more reverberant venue.