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All the sounds of his age

Charles Ives: maverick. That’s a phrase that’s been used so often about this American composer, insurance broker and baseball nut that it’s taken over the reputation of a composer who wrote music on no-one else’s terms but his own.

It’s easy to see why it’s a label that’s stuck. It’s not only that

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