Igor Stravinsky — "[Charles Ives] was exploring the 1960s during the heyday of Strauss and Debussy.…"

[Charles Ives] was exploring the 1960s during the heyday of Strauss and Debussy. Polytonality; atonality; tone clusters; perspectivistic effects; chance; statistical composition; permutation; add-a-part, practical-joke, and improvisatory music: these were Ives' discoveries a half-century ago as he quietly set about devouring the contemporary cake before the rest of us even found a seat at the same table.
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In a 1966 interview, discussing Charles Ives.

Date: 1966

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