We thought we'd add another dimension to our 50th anniversary celebration of the discovery of the Double Helix, by featuring this lecture and performance by Triple Helix, the internationally-acclaimed ensemble out of Wellesey College with special guest, professor of English, Lawrence Rosenwald. The group performs Ives Second Violin Sonata and Ives Piano trio while intermittently discussing Charles Ives and his Piano Trio. Born in Danbury, Connecticut in 1874, Charles Ives pursued one of the most extraordinary and paradoxical careers in American music history. Businessman by day and composer by night, Ives's compositions gradually brought him recognition as an original and significant American composer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, Ives sought a highly personalized musical expression through the most innovative and radical technical means possible. A fascination with bi-tonal forms, polyrhythms, and quotation was nurtured by his father whom Ives would later acknowledge as the primary creative influence on his musical style. In 1947, Ives was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his *Symphony No. 3*.
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Wellesley College
