His works Calcium Light Night and Yale-Princeton Football Game show the influence of college and sports on Ives’ composition. Murphy, his coach, once remarked that it was a “crying shame” that Charles Ives spent so much time at music as otherwise he could have been a champion sprinter. He enjoyed sports at Yale and played on the varsity football team. On November 4, 1894, Charles’s father died, a crushing blow to the young composer, but to a large degree Ives continued the musical experimentation he had begun with George Ives.Īt Yale, Ives was a prominent figure he was a member of HeBoule, Delta Kappa Epsilon (Phi chapter) and Wolf’s Head Society, and sat as chairman of the Ivy Committee. Here he composed in a choral style similar to his mentor, writing church music and even an 1896 campaign song for William McKinley. In September 1894, Ives entered Yale University, studying under Horatio Parker. Ives moved to New Haven in 1893, enrolling in the Hopkins School, where he captained the baseball team. The work is considered challenging even by modern concert organists, but Ives famously spoke of it as being “as much fun as playing baseball”, a commentary on his own organ technique at that age. Ives became a church organist at the age of 14 and wrote various hymns and songs for church services, including his Variations on ‘America’, which Ives wrote for a Fourth of July concert in Brewster, New York. It was from his father that Charles Ives also learned the music of Stephen Foster. George Ives’ unique music lessons were also a strong influence on Charles George Ives took an open-minded approach to musical theory, encouraging his son to experiment in bitonal and polytonal harmonizations. A strong influence of Charles’s may have been sitting in the Danbury town square, listening to his father’s marching band and other bands on other sides of the square simultaneously. Army bandleader in the American Civil War, and his wife Mary Parmelee. Charles Ives was born in Danbury, Connecticut in 1874, the son of George Ives, a U.S.
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