Meeting Places

Track Listings

1. Meeting Places - New York Music Ensemble

2. Caprice

3. Voyage - Arthur Kreiger

4. Uncommon Bonds - Jean Kopperud

5. In Short Crystal Moments - Arthur Kreiger

6. Close Encounters - Jayne Rosenfeld

7. Electronic Study, In Memoriam: Vladimir Ussachevsky - Arthur Kreiger

8. Dialogue for Steel Drums and Electronic Tape - Daniel Druckman

9. Suitable Attachments - Christopher Finckel, Jean Kopperud, Jayne Rosenfeld

Tracks:

Symphony No. 1: I. Allegro - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 1: II. Adagio molto (sostenuto) - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 1: III. Scherzo: Vivace - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 1: IV. Allegro molto - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 4: I. Prelude: Maestoso - The Cleveland Orchestra
Symphony No. 4: II. Allegretto - The Cleveland Orchestra
Symphony No. 4: III. Fugue: Andante moderato - The Cleveland Orchestra
Symphony No. 4: IV. Very Slowly - Largo maestoso - The Cleveland Orchestra
Orchestral Set No. 2: I. An Elegy To Our Forefathers - The Cleveland Orchestra
Orchestral Set No. 2: II. The Rockstrewn Hills Join In The People's Outdoor Meeting - The Cleveland Orchestra
Orchestral Set No. 2: III. From Hanover Square North, At The End Of A Tragic Day, The Voices Of The People Again Arose - The Cleveland Orchestra

Tracks:

Symphony No. 2: I. Andante moderato - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 2: II. Allegro - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 2: III. Adagio cantabile - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 2: IV. Lento maestoso - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 2: V. Allegro molto vivace - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 3 'The Camp Meeting': I. Old Folks Gatherin' - Academy Of St Martin - In - The - Fields
Symphony No. 3 'The Camp Meeting': II. Children's Play - Academy Of St Martin - In - The - Fields
Symphony No. 3 'The Camp Meeting': III. Communion - Academy Of St Martin - In - The - Fields
Three Places In New England (Orchestral Set No. 1): I. The 'St Gaudens' In Boston Common (Col. Robert Gould Shaw And His Colored Regiment) - The Cleveland Orchestra
Three Places In New England (Orchestral Set No. 1): II. Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut - The Cleveland Orchestra
Three Places In New England (Orchestral Set No. 1): III. The Housatonic At Stockbridge - The Cleveland Orchestra

Customer Reviews:

Amazing.......2003-10-11

This 2-CD set is really good, and contains his complete numbered symphonies (except, Holidays Symphony [No. 5]) and Orchestral Sets...

First Symphony (D minor!) is a study work, written in school years, so he didn't abandon the principles of harmony(!)

Second Symphony (F Major, except the last chord of music!) contains themes of some famous composers (Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Dvorak) and last chord is hysterical of course...

Third Symphony is a winner of Pulitzer, and written for a chamber orchestra

And Fourth Symphony is one of the best compositions by Ives.
Especially 2nd movement is terrific...He used some popular tunes and marches of USA (as usual!) and divide 2 part to the all orchestra. Even so, this movement requires two conductors for orchestra only (!). Orchestration is amazing (ex. quarter-tone piano, more two normal pianos, bells, gongs, large woodwinds, 6 horns, 6 trumpets, 4 trombones, 2 tubas etc...) and choir requires...

All performers are very good. Especially Dohnanyi and his Cleveland Orchestra (in 4th Sym.), Zubin Mehta and his Los Angeles PO (in 2nd Symphony) are excellent...

In other words, this set is a must have for all Ives fans.
Highly recommended...

A great set.......2003-08-18

Ives' four symphonies beautifully summarize his musical development. Unlike Brahms' four, they are not all fully mature works. Each one freezes a moment in his musical development. The first is student work, much in the manner of Dvorak and Tchaikovsky (with paraphrases of each), and the most vibrant American symphony written to that time. The Second does what many musical nationalists of Ives' day thought an American symphony should do -- apply native themes to European models, but as much fun as the result is, it was a dead end for the composer, and he never attempted anything like it again. Mehta and the LA Philharmonic give energetic and fully romantic readings of each, which came as a pleasant surprise to an long-time Ives fan who thought he'd heard all these works have to offer.

The Third comes closer to the mark. It consists of American themes woven together with ingenious counterpoint into wholly original forms. It is a jewel, and just the kind of pretty, low-key piece that brings out the best in Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.

The Fourth is the masterpiece, the work Ives struggled toward all his life. Dohnanyi and the Cleveland Orchestra do a creditable job that stands up well to the competition from Stokowski and Tilson Thomas. I especially liked the engineering in the second and fourth movements, which captures some details others don't. (I'd never heard the wind machine before.)

As a bonus, you also get Ives' great orchestral sets, both in fine performances with Dohnanyi. The No. 1, better known as Three Places in New England, is the more famous, but the Second is sublime.

This reasonably priced set is a great, convenient way to acquire some of Ives' best music all at once.

Beautiful Music.......2001-05-13

I agree with Daniel. I, too, had been looking for a compilation of all of Ives' Symphonies, to no avail. Thankfully, Decca has released this gorgeous compilation of Ives' four symphonies, as well as including two orchestral sets.

Ives was a genius at creating uniquely beautiful harmony. And this impeccable set of recordings is a must for any Ives admirer.

Do Not Hesitate!.......2001-03-20

For quite some time, I had been looking for just such a compilation of all the Ives symphonies. When I saw this newly released compilation from Decca, I bought it without a moment's hesitation. And I am very glad I did: This set has very quickly become one of my favorite recordings. Not only the four symphonies, but also the two great orchestral sets 1 and 2 are included as well. Unquestionably, it is these two orchestral sets that make this compilation such an outstanding bargain and, really, an absolute MUST HAVE for anyone even remotely interested in modern classical music.

Each of the symphonies is very well performed, though none of these are what I would call the Definitive Recordings. However, the Mehta performance of the First is exceedingly good, and I don't really see how it could possibly be improved on. . . Dohnanyi's performance of the Fourth is a little restrained for my tastes, but it is nonetheless an interesting interpretation. Dohnanyi more than proves himself a able interpreter of Ives in his performances of the two orchestral sets, which are, without a doubt, the highlights of this album. J. P. Burkholder's liner notes add some very interesting insights into each of the works.

Based on the overall quality of these individual performances, I would give them four stars. However, considering that each of these two CD's contains almost 80 minutes of Ives, and considering the inclusion of these wonderful orchestral sets, this compilation is very worthy to be rated at five stars.

Numbered Days
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Numbered Days
The Meeting Places
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Love Like the Movies
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Album Description

`Numbered Days' is the second album of luminous, infectious noise-pop by Los Angeles' THE MEETING PLACES. On their sophomore record the quartet has written ten new songs that craftily combine melodic indie-pop with the tremulous soundscapes first explored on their debut Find Yourself Along The Way (Words On Music, 2003). `Numbered Days' was recorded at The Ship by JIM FAIRCHILD (GRANDADDY, EARLIMART).

`Numbered Days' evokes a leaner, more urgent approach to songwriting, in the spirit of THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN's `Darklands' or THE SHINS `Oh, Inverted World'.

THE MEETING PLACES' renowned mastery of noise-pop shines through in the gorgeous melodies of "Until It's Gone" and in the blistering, darker guitar work of "Sink Into Stone" - two songs on different ends of the lyrical and sonic spectrum.

THE MEETING PLACES' more egalitarian approach to their art provides singer Chase Harris with a forum to make subtler points with his lyrics, the impact of which may be dulled in the moment, but deepened over time. For example, on "Pause," the music has a deceptively relaxed cadence - resurrecting "Sister of Europe" era PSYCHEDELIC FURS - that temporarily cloaks the intensity of Harris' narrative of a relationship deteriorating into autopilot.

The inclusion of resonating atmospherics is, for THE MEETING PLACES, never an end itself, only a means to an end. Instead of droning into nothingness, shimmering coats of reverb anchor the songs to set up the delivery of a well-placed hook or a knockout punch of a chorus, such as in the boisterous, pulsating "Nothing's The Same" or the catchy, upbeat "Hall of Fame."

The cunning implementation of dynamics and sundry instruments (e.g. piano, glockenspiel), showcase THE MEETING PLACES' songwriting talents, as in the album closer "Cardboard Robot" which alternates between a calm, unwavering verse and a searing chorus that detours into early MY BLOODY VALENTINE and kraut-rock.

Tracks:

Three Places In New England: The 'St. Gaudens' In Boston Common (Col. Shaw And His Colored Regiment)
Three Places In New England: Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut
Three Places In New England: From The Housatonic At Stockbridge
Symphony No 3, 'The Camp Meeting': 1. 'Old Folks Gatherin' (Andante maestoso)
Symphony No 3, 'The Camp Meeting': 2. 'Children's Day' (Allegro moderato)
Symphony No 3, 'The Camp Meeting': 3. 'Communion' (Largo)
New England Triptych (Three Pieces For Orchestra After William Billings): 1. Be Glad Then, America
New England Triptych (Three Pieces For Orchestra After William Billings): 2. When Jesus Wept
New England Triptych (Three Pieces For Orchestra After William Billings): 3. Chester
Symphony No. 5: 1. Con sdegno
Symphony No. 5: 2. Canto
Symphony No. 5: 3. Allegro tempetuoso

Customer Reviews:

A classic classical album.......2005-06-21

The Third is the most charming of Charles Ives' four "official" symphonies; one imagines the French would have been able to perform it - & loved it - during the 1920's. Subsequent research & a better sense of Ives' "sound" cannot be altogether discounted when listening to Hanson's committed 1959 performance; James Sinclair with the Northern Sinfonia on Naxos has a lighter & more deft touch that I believe is closer to what Ives heard in his head. But the inclusion of "Three Places," William Schuman's "New England Triptych," & the rugged Symphony no. 5 by the somewhat neglected Peter Mennin make this a classic classical album. Mercury's close mic "Living Presence" recording is better heard on speakers than through earphones, & was a sonic wonder of the era.

Go to the center of the matter.......2000-07-07

Howard Hanson finds so much in these works that when you compare them to other performances you think you're listening to different works.

This is particularly true of the Ives. No one conducted Ives like Hanson who, as an eminent composer himself, had unique insight into how Ives's mind worked. Voices, rhythmic patterning, tones, piled up and juxtaposed sonorities, the whole rich pallete is laid out for your delectation. Hanson is in no way picayune, either. He has a brilliant argument going for Ives as a classicist as much as a modernist. There is no other recording of the third symphony as full and rewarding as this.

The Schuman is another American standby that gets the revelatory Hanson treatment and is all the better for it. Often, when you do get to hear it, it's treated as an occasional piece, a patriotic "historiograph" or impression for us to enjoy and forget. After Hanson, you don't forget it...it's a first-rate work that you want to hear over and over with its evocative colors and straightforward, artistic honesty. You almost feel that Schuman could have reworked it into one of his beautiful and powerful symphonies.

And the Mennin is just that, compelling, powerful, beautiful. The ERSO outdoes itself with heft here, without overdoing it. Mennin propels everything forward and is extremely economical with his ideals. Hanson shows you how it all fits together without it seeming like a lecture-recital. Mennin usually didn't get such probing performances of his works, and after listening to this, you bemoan the fact that he died a few years back at just 51 years old. We were lucky to have him.

Tracks:

Three Places In New England: The 'St. Gaudens' In Boston Common
Three Places In New England: Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut
Three Places In New England: The Housatonic At Stockbridge
March III With The Air ' Old Kentucky Home'
The Unanswered Question
Central Park In The Dark
Fugue in Four Keys On ' The Shining Shore'
Symphony No. 3 'The Camp Meeting': Old Folks Gatherin'
Symphony No. 3 'The Camp Meeting': Children's Day
Symphony No. 3 'The Camp Meeting': Communion

Amazon.com essential recording

These are the major works of Charles Ives (1874-1954), done in magnificent sound--and superlative performances--by Louis Slatkin and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Three Places in New England--and perhaps this version--belongs in every collection of 20th-century American music. Also a treat here are The Unanswered Question and Central Park in the Dark. These aren't tone poems, quite. (It's hard to say what they are.) But Ives had the knack for providing even his most discordant works a tonal C major core. Usually. This would allow him--as in Symphony 3--to wander occasionally astray. Highly recommended. --Paul Cook

Amazon.com

This is a great Ives disc. You get: (1) his most popular "normal" symphony; (2) his most famous "radical" orchestral suite; (3) his most famous short piece; and (4) a bunch of interesting and little-known experimental pieces. In short, this disc is the perfect introduction to the music of Danbury- -Connecticut's greatest composer--a true American original. The last of the Three Places in New England is a short tone poem called The Housatonic at Stockbridge. It depicts the flow of the Housatonic River past a covered bridge and a village church, where the strains of a hymn tune seem to merge with the mist coming off the river. It's as hauntingly memorable as anything you'll ever hear. --David Hurwitz

Customer Reviews:

just right.......2006-10-23

There's something really all-American about the way Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra play Ives here. The very timbre of the orchestra is idiomatic; the Boston Symphony or the Philadelphia Orchestra, by contrast, have opulent, Old World sounds that don't suit these scores as well as the direct, no-nonsense, clean-cut, grassroots, Midwestern sort of sonority produced by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra here. I mean it... it may sound doubtful as written on the page and it's difficult to put it into words, but you'll hear for yourself that St. Louis has got the right sort of sound for this music where other orchestras don't. Furthermore, Slatkin has a real knack for getting intimate, controlled, chamber music-type playing out of large orchestras and sprawling scores. This allows for some really interesting interpretations, and it only serves to enhance the sound of an orchestra already well suited to playing Ives. Add this one to your collection without delay.

A fine representative set of Ives' orchestral music........2001-08-28

The recording is excellent, the performances are as fine as any I can remember. If you have the Orpheus recording, you won't need this one -- and vice-verse -- as far as the two major works are concerned. The pieces are arranged well for a complete Ives concert on a single disc. Highly recommended, but I wish it were midprice like the Eastman disc on Mercury.

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swooning guitar
Excellent dreamy mood music
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THE MEETING PLACES' debut CD was recorded in Autumn, 2002 by Aaron Espinonza, the heralded musician [Earlimart] and producer [Elliot Smith, The Breeders, Folk Implosion]. While the album's elements and textures evoke the best of the early 1990s dream pop tradition (Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, and Ride), singer Chase Harris' inimitable vocal delivery leads the quartet into memorable, unfamiliar sonic territory.

"Freeze Our Stares" launches the album with Scott McDonald's trademark thick, shimmered coatings of guitar resonance. Harris' cool, self-assured vocal melodies on "You Could Never Be the One" and "On Our Own" hint of vintage Jesus and Mary Chain. "See Through You" is a more casual, but no less poignant, excursion into more delicate melodic structures, recalling 'Souvlaki'-era Slowdive. Dean Yoshihara's nimble drumming propels the buoyant "Wide Awake" and ushers "Same Lies As Yesterday" through to its soaring chorus. "Take to the Sun" is a three-act epic suggesting Spiritualized — leading with Harris' distant vocals, transitioning into Arthur Chan's bass-driven middle act, and ending with a noise-laden coda.

'Find Yourself Along The Way' escorts dream pop into its next phase — songs written with flair and tunefulness, enchantingly dressed in an echoed veneer.

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swooning guitar.......2007-02-21

this is my surprise album for this year thus far.
i bought it from a pandora recommendation and absolutely love this album.

it's very swoony and etheral guitar with simplistic melodies and good vocals.
the album is a very well matched set of songs.
i'd highly recommend it.

Excellent dreamy mood music.......2006-02-23

Quite removed from modern trends and therfore for people who can look outside of what's fashionable, this is a fantastic piece of dreamy guitar dream pop. Reminiscent of lots of early 90's UK shoegazer pop, its got all the necessasry ingrediants - relaxed vocals, walls of guitar effects and all in all is a superb listen. Highly recommended.

So good....top of the line ambient.......2005-10-14

If you like music from Cocteau twins, Slowdive, brain eno, my bloody valentine and or any other ambient chill music that just makes you feel good, you need this album, almost every song is great. in general this has the feeling of a cohesive album instead of a collection of random songs. if i were ever to make a movie, I would deffinately use some of these tunes in the soundtrack, hahaha...

Wondrous and Lovely.......2004-03-10

I love this CD!! I saw the band play a week ago in L.A. If you are a shoegazer or dream pop fan, this is for you! The resplendent washes of background sound and feedback are pierced by beautiful guitar melodies. Arthur Chan's bass playing is superb, and his bass bridge on Same Lies As Yesterday leading as an interlude into the blending of the melody and harmony of the song is transformative. I'm not kiding. It brings tears to my eyes. On Our Own is just a wonderful melody. It makes me picture Olympus and Athena, Aphrodite or Hera gliding down to assist a human they love who's in peril. The point is, whatever's in your mind, this music will highlight it and bring it to a more metaphyscial level. It makes it more meaningful. All of the songs are good though, Freeze Our Stares, Wide Awake, Now I know You Could Never Be the One, etc. etc. Great CD. Buy it now!

Great Music and Lyrics.......2004-03-02

If you like listening to and discovering new music then this band is a definitely worth checking out. I'm not a huge fan of shoegaze music however, I enjoy some songs done by `My Bloody Valentine'.

Customer Reviews:

An American sampler.......2006-06-21

My wife and I often eat at a local restaurant that offers what it calls an "American sampler" of shishkabob, Hawaiian chicken and Louisiana Gulf shrimp. I liken that plate to this collection by the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra and longtime conductor-director Howard Hanson. Based on the quality of much of this music, I think the title could more readily have been "Howard Handson Conducts An American Sampler" rather than American masterworks, for the quality of some of this music is arguable in that respect.

Hanson was not only a composer and conductor, he was a great champion of American music in the 1950s, when its profile and exposure were much less than today. Many of the compositions included in this anthology have since been recorded in DDD in the Maxos American music series. Others have been recorded on other labels in newer, sometimes better, recordings. This does nothing to diminish these recordings or to dampen the memory of Hanson and his band.

However, many of the more well known recordings in this set have been re-done either more artistically and/or in better sound since these recordings first appeared the better part of 50 years ago. In particular, Barber's Capricorn Concerto and Medea suite, Ives's Third Symphony & Three Places in New England, Piston's Incredible Flutist and Schuman's New England Triptych have all been recorded many times in the intervening years. The recordings here sometimes magnify the thin and wiry sound coming from the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra. Some are simply not very well played, either.

That said, there are still five decade old gems to be located here. Among my favorites are William Bergsma's "Gold and Senor Commandante" ballet suite, a delightful nine-movement ballet suite that is clearly meant for the concert hall and not the stage. I also enjoy Morton Gould's "Sprituals" and George Whitfield Chadwick's "Symphonic Sketches" that merges British stoicism with American melody-making.

Best for me is the performance of Peter Mennin's Symphony No. 5. This 1962 recording was probably the first of a Mennin symphony and it still stands up well to competition. The dramatic three movement edifice is completely engaging. Its syncopated rhythm on an ostimato E-F-G-F sharp-A-E theme in the closing movement is catchy and stays long in memory.

Another important and rarely recorded piece is Johann Friedrich Peter's "Sinfonia in G". Peter was an early American composer from the Classical period; he was born 1746 and died 1813. The sinfonia mimics the CPE Bach crossover from Baroque to Classical early symphony with modular thematic development in each of its four movements.

There are other memorable chunks of Americana on this collection and everything sound wonderful, captured in ultra-clear and well-defined three channel tapes (produced here in stereo and not SACD) from the 1950s and early 1960s. The notes are very helpful and the bookelt details the origin of each recording. There is a very high level of nostalgia evident in this grouping that adds much to its appeal.

I think this collection is best suited to people that want to recapture the nostalgia of these great old recordings. Today's DDD technology has nothing on these fine sounding CDs even though Mercury missed an opportunity to release these as three channel SACDs. Perhaps that is coming in the future?

Another group of listeners that will most appreciate this collection are people that want exposure to many American composers and don't want to pay a lot to get it. The modest list price for this five CD collection is usually reduced by 40-50 percent when purchasing used from an Amazon vendor. I bought mine for about $20, the cost of less than three new Naxos CDs. This set is certainly worth more than that. Even veteran collectors (who didn't buy the original LPs or individual CDs) will probably find something new and different here.

Hanson's MLP Gems Are Back!.......2005-06-09

Those familiar with my reviews on Amazon know of my great love for the Mercury Living Presence series. Equally great is my disgust that so many of these brilliant recordings have been deleted in the last few years! Thankfully, some of these legendary performances are resurfacing as SACD hybrids. However, they are unfortunately now being sold at full-price, despite a competing Living Stereo hybrid series on RCA/BMG being available at midline. In spite of the added expense, I hope this MLP reissue trend will continue, and maybe we'll even see a few items receiving their CD debut in this series.

These performances of American Masterwoks by Howard Hanson are in most cases definitive accounts of rarely recorded pieces by many of our country's too often neglected composers -- Barber, Chadwick, Piston, Moore, Carpenter, Rogers, MacDowell, etc. While three of these recordings continue to be available in their original CD incarnations, the remaining two discs featuring Ives and Gould have been out-of-print for some time. Now with this box set they are deservedly restored to the catalog. Even better is the fact that the 5CD box sets being reissued have been reasonably priced because they are not SACD Hybrids. This set and three others (see my reviews) have a total cost cheaper than the original single issue CDs! Once again, Mercury Living Presence lives!

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An "Orphic egg" laid

A Set of Pieces: Music by Charles Ives

Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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Release Date: 1994-07-19

Tracks:

Three Places in New England: The 'Saint-Gaudens' In Boston Common
Three Places in New England: Putnams' Camp, Redding, Connecticut
Three Places in New England: The Housatonic at Stockbridge
The Unanswered Question
A Set Of Pieces: In The Cage
A Set Of Pieces: In The Inn
A Set Of Pieces: In The Night
Symphony No.3 'The Camp Meeting': Old Folks Gatherin'
Symphony No.3 'The Camp Meeting': Children's Day
Symphony No.3 'The Camp Meeting': Communion
Set No.1: The See'r
Set No.1: A Lecture (Tolerance)
Set No.1: The Ruined River (The New River)
Set No.1: Like a Sick Eagle
Set No.1: Calcium Light Night
Set No.1: Allegretto Sombreoso

Customer Reviews:

An "Orphic egg" laid.......2005-12-17

Back in the '70s Decca put out a budget US label called "Orphic Egg." My title utilizes this as a pun for what Orpheus did with Ives's Set No. 1.

The person who advised Orpheus on this music did a really poor job. Never mind the HOWLER in the top Violin in an early-on measure in "The St. Gaudens" (A-sharp instead of A-natural -- WHOA!). I'm here to write about this version of Set No. 1: The See'r, A Lecture, The Ruined River, Like a Sick Eagle, Calcium Light Night, and Incantation.

First off I'll point out the most obvious blooper. The Solo horn part in Incantation is played in the wrong key! It is supposed to start on E-flat, but sounds a 5th lower on A-flat. The reason this happened is that the person who advised them didn't notice that in the score it says "actual sounds" above the Solo staff, but this note was omitted from the part (publisher's error). So the English Horn plays it as if it is a transposing part, and thus it sounds a 5th lower than it should be! All that needed to be done was to check the version for voice and piano -- but their advisor didn't bother to do that.

The versions of The See'r and Like a Sick Eagle are the ones made by Gunther Schuller for his Columbia LP. They're "all right" but Schuller based his scores solely on the old 1934 copyist scores that perpetuate significant if minor errors. This version of A Lecture is the one made by Gregg Smith for his second Columbia LP which also has minor errors and changes the Solo cornet to clarinet.

Now comes the true joke of the album (a sad joke poorly played on Orpheus): these versions of The Ruined River and Calcium Light Night are not just in critical error, at times they are just plain crazy! The score used for CLN is almost funny for me to listen to --- wrong rhythms, sometimes bizzare rhythms, especially in the solo cornet part, and a few completely incorrect parts for the instruments. Reading an Ives sketch can be deceiving, and one shouldn't always rely on alignment of one part against another, or hastily-sketched fragments of parts duplicated by a later addition, but this is what was done when this score was made by the group's advisor. It doesn't even sound, to my ears, like a march anymore, and this piece is supposed to represent the members of Psi Upsilon and Delta Kappa Epsilon marching across the Old Yale Campus initiating new members and singing uproariously. They could have used Ken Singleton's score, which is a good score and appears on Jim Sinclair's Koch CD, but I hear it's unavailable. They might have even used the now-discredited Henry Cowell "arrangement" and done better, but they didn't!

Now I say all this because I have some inside information. I was commissioned to do a critical Ives Society edition of this Set in the 1980s, and Ensemble Modern used that edition in their now (unfortunately) out-of-print EMI CD. One day I was called up by the person advising Orpheus and asked if I would send them my edition, in score and parts, because this person thought it would be "wonderful" to have these pieces fill out the CD (in other words, I was sweet-talked into providing these materials). I did so, at my own expense and without asking for any remuneration. I checked with Orpheus a few days later and they had received my materials. Within a few minutes I was called back by the person who had asked for the materials and was seriously cussed out for daring to call Orpheus on my own. I was a little stunned. I was even more stunned when this CD came out with this travesty of an edition on it! (I also had a good laugh over how truly awful it was!)

I wrote Orpheus telling them how they had been taken in (my first use of the "Orphic egg" metaphor) but they didn't seem to care. It's their misfortune that they put their trust in someone who didn't merit it.

The CD has a wonderful rendition of Symphony No. 3 and the Theater Orchestra Set, and the other two movements of "Three Places." But don't buy it for Set No. 1! You can do better with Richard Bernas's "When the Moon" CD (even though he was made to use Cowell's score fof Calcium Light Night).

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Meeting Places
Jeanne Newhall
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ASIN: B000000FFZ
Release Date: 1994-05-18

Tracks:

Touch
No Resistance
Snowlight
Highroads
All That You Are
Nightbird
Between The Candle & The Flame
Gypsy Spring
Meeting Places

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Meeting Places

Manufacturer: Albany Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000UJL64
Release Date: 2003-11-25

Tracks:

Meeting Places - New York Music Ensemble
Caprice
Voyage - Arthur Kreiger
Uncommon Bonds - Jean Kopperud
In Short Crystal Moments - Arthur Kreiger
Close Encounters - Jayne Rosenfeld
Electronic Study, In Memoriam: Vladimir Ussachevsky - Arthur Kreiger
Dialogue for Steel Drums and Electronic Tape - Daniel Druckman
Suitable Attachments - Christopher Finckel, Jean Kopperud, Jayne Rosenfeld

Average customer rating:

swooning guitar
Excellent dreamy mood music
So good....top of the line ambient
Wondrous and Lovely
Great Music and Lyrics

Find Yourself Along The Way
The Meeting Places
Manufacturer: Words On Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00012KJCG
Release Date: 2003-09-02

Tracks:

Freeze Our Stares
On Our Own
See Through You
Now I Know You Could Never Be The One
Same Lies As Yesterday
Blue The Line
Wide Awake
Where You Go
Take To The Sun
Turned Over

Product Description

The Meeting Places presents ten songs brimming with wonderous guitar washes and melodies to hum and holler. The quartet's debut album was recorded by the acclaimed Aaron Espinoza of Earlimart.

Customer Reviews:

swooning guitar.......2007-02-21

Excellent dreamy mood music.......2006-02-23

So good....top of the line ambient.......2005-10-14

Wondrous and Lovely.......2004-03-10

Great Music and Lyrics.......2004-03-02

If you like listening to and discovering new music then this band is a definitely worth checking out. I'm not a huge fan of shoegaze music however, I enjoy some songs done by `My Bloody Valentine'.

This band produces intelligent lyrics and original sounds with great rhythm and they have become one of my favorite newest discoveries in music. This album is worth owning!

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1. Meeting Places - New York Music Ensemble
2. Caprice
3. Voyage - Arthur Kreiger
4. Uncommon Bonds - Jean Kopperud
5. In Short Crystal Moments - Arthur Kreiger
6. Close Encounters - Jayne Rosenfeld
7. Electronic Study, In Memoriam: Vladimir Ussachevsky - Arthur Kreiger
8. Dialogue for Steel Drums and Electronic Tape - Daniel Druckman
9. Suitable Attachments - Christopher Finckel, Jean Kopperud, Jayne Rosenfeld