Ivesian

You end up playing syncopated figures against yourself, and have to be able to keep two ideas in your head at once — that's something that is especially Ivesian.

Denk and Ives, Partners in Pianism Stuart Isacoff 2010

With a sort of Ivesian ability to conjure up mental pictures, Zorn gives us a few seconds of chases and stately processions, cartoon silliness and Bronx cheers, snatches of well-known classical pieces, false endings, and beginnings that have a hard time getting started.

In performance: Alexander and Afiara Quartets 2010

Sometimes I Feel Alive (1998), to texts by e.e. cummings, explores aspects of love from the sensual to the selfless through an appealing blend of jazzy pop-music rhythms, canonic writing (at which Wachner excels), and hymnlike choral blending with a near-Ivesian sound.

On CD: Julian Wachner 2010

Like the sleek Ivesian lines of the iPod itself, you my friend have a work of great design.

Yeah, I met this girl 2007

Though it seemed an odd way to open a concert, as if we were about to attend a Methodist church service, it was strange, craggy, and Ivesian music.

Archive 2007-11-01 sfmike 2007

Though it seemed an odd way to open a concert, as if we were about to attend a Methodist church service, it was strange, craggy, and Ivesian music.

Armenian Perfume and Yankee Hymns sfmike 2007

First, thehousepianist got on the piano and showed the Wolf Man how one could improvise scales according Ivesian intervals, like doing scales, say a major C scale, in do-re...then E-flat to me...then fa so G# la ti do.

A One-Arm Writer Just Walked Back in the Door The Daily Growler 2006

The great musical essayist Michael Steinberg had a wonderful piece in the program explaining the music, which he calls an "Ivesian Four Seaons," a perfect description.

Archive 2006-04-01 sfmike 2006

The great musical essayist Michael Steinberg had a wonderful piece in the program explaining the music, which he calls an "Ivesian Four Seaons," a perfect description.

I Wish Charles Ives Could Be a California Guy sfmike 2006

Seems like a hell of a great verse for an Ivesian-type song.

Holy Hell Arrives Today The Daily Growler 2006