Performance

Work by Charles Ives

1 upcoming performance in New York

At David Geffen Hall, “Work by Charles Ives” places the New England modernist inside a larger conversation about home and belonging. Ives’s music often collides hymns, marches, and fragments of vernacular life into dense, simultaneous sound, a record of American memory as much as composition. His work has long circulated in New York’s concert world, where the Philharmonic helped legitimize an initially contested American voice. One clear takeaway is that Ives still tests how an orchestra can hold contradiction without smoothing it into consensus.