Bibliography

Like Ives’s music, Ms. Blankert’s production combined tough mindedness with sentiment.

“It is a strange engrossing bal-let. Charles Ives was a strange, engrossing composer.” John Tuvas, choreographer.

Pages 133-209 of 1969 publication are reprinted in 1975-1976 publication.

From 1969 Second Edition: Additions include “Some Corrections and Amplifications,” “List of Published Compositions,” “List of Re-corded Compositions,” and “Additional Entries” ap-pended to the bibliography. * From 1971 Spanish translation: Prologue by Juan Carlos Paz especially for this edition (p. 5-22) entitled “Charles E. Ives, un fenomeno musical. ... El musico creador mas potente y personal que haya surgido en America.” * From 1983 Third Edition: Includes a reprint of “Ivesiana: ‘More Than Something Just Usual’” as a Foreword, a “Supplementary List of Published Compositions,” a “Supplementary List of Recorded Compositions,” and a “Supplementary Bibliography.”

Details the dances. “The piece is one of those on an American subject in which Balan- chine becomes completely an American choreographer —not the Stravinsky-Balanchine, or the Balanchine of ‘Western Symphony’ or ‘Stars and Stripes,’ who ex- presses America from a European point of view, but a Balanchine who sees us at the same distance from which we see Ourselves.”