Meister, Barbara 1980

Discusses When General William Booth Enters into Heaven, “probably the most representative of the lot” (i.e., the songs], 190 (considers The Chil-dren's Hour, The Circus Band, The Greatest Man, The Housatonic at Stockbridge (“One of Ives's most evocative songs...an atmospheric, moody piece of simple serenity. One senses reverie, time suspended, peace.”), In Flanders Fields, The Last Reader, Maple Leaves, The Side- Show, They Are There!,The Things Our Fathers Loved, Tom Sails Away, Two Little Flowers), 191 (“He was the first major thoroughly American composer”).