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Ives: Impression of the 'St Gaudens' in Boston Common (1915)

from Ives, Hauer, Stravinsky, Pepples, Satie: In Memoriam Paul Zukofsky by AARON LIKNESS, ANDREW ZHOU, pianos

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Ives’ Impressions of the ‘St Gaudens’ in Boston Common is the piano version of what became the first movement in Three Places in New England. Subtitled “Black March”, it is elegiac and the least mechanistic piece on the program. It remembers a statue of African American Union soldiers marching off to battle in the Civil War.

Along with Ravel (but not Debussy), Ives was on Paul’s list of music to take to a desert island. - Craig Pepples

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The ‘St Gaudens’ on Boston Common

Moving, -Marching- Faces of Souls!
Marked with generations of pain,
Part-freers of a Destiny,
Slowly, restlessly-swaying us on with you
Towards other Freedom . . .
You images of a Divine Law
Carved in the shadow of a saddened heart--
Never light abandoned--
Of an age and of a nation.
Above and beyond that compelling mass
Rises the drum beat of the common-heart
In the silence of a strange and
Sounding afterglow
Moving, -Marching- Faces of Souls!


- Charles Ives,
preface to the score of
Impression of the ‘St Gaudens’
In Boston Common

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