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	1898	Date on manuscript: song Flag Song
	1903	Date on manuscript: The Light That Is Felt arranged as a song
	1907	Date on manuscript: Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano, mvt. ii, ink copy, "1902, Nov. 1907"
	1911	Date on manuscript: song Requiem—"118 Waverly Place [NYC] ... Nov. 1911"
	1914	Globe Theater orchestra (New York City) reads Washington’s Birthday [mvt. i of "Holidays Symphony"]
	1920	choral An Election begun
	1925	Ives harmonizes Edith Ives’s song Christmas Carol
	1978	First recording: songs Allegro, Ilmenau, My Native Land [I], Nature’s Way, On the Counter, A Song–For Anything, Songs my mother taught me, Spring Song, To Edith, Waltz, The World’s Highway, and The World’s Wanderers (Walter Carringer [T] and Will Crutchfield [pf]; issued in 1979 by Brewster Records)
Nov 1	1962	First recording: songs The Cage and Soliloquy (Jean Lunn [S] and Lawrence Smith [pf]), at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Penn.
Nov 2	1929	Birth of conductor (and composer) Harold Farberman at New York City. Farberman conducted for the first recording of Largo: The Indians (mvt. i of Set No. 2), The Pond (with voice), chamber ens The Rainbow, Tone Roads Nos. 1 & 3, Largo cantabile: Hymn (mvt. i of A Set of Three Short Pieces), and cantata The Celestial Country.
	1942	Premiere: song The Last Reader (Doris Doe [Mezz] and Hellmut Baerwald [pf]), at Town Hall, New York City
	1969	First recording: songs Canon [I], Down East, and The New River (Helen Boatwright [S] and John Kirkpatrick [pf]; issued in 1974 by Columbia Records)
Nov 4	1894	Death of George Edward Ives (father), age 49, at Danbury, Conn. Biographers Henry and Sidney Cowell said that Charles Ives, in essence, wrote his father’s music. Thus all of Ives’s music memorializes his father, but particularly so Decoration Day [mvt. ii of "Holidays Symphony"] and song Remembrance. Immediately after his father’s death, Ives found solice in the writings of Thoreau and wrote two pieces about that author ("Thoreau", mvt. iv of Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass. and song Thoreau).
Nov 5	1912	Date on manuscript: song Vote for Names! Names! Names! ("Election Day")
	1966	First recording: song The Circus Band (Lois White [Mez] and Linda Jaffarian [pf]), at Sprague Memorial Hall, New Haven, Conn.
	1967	First recording: Symphony No. 1 (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, cond. by Morton Gould; issued in 1966 by RCA Victor)
Nov 6	1854	Birth of John Philip Sousa at Washington, DC. Ives borrowed material from three Sousa marches: Liberty Bell March (Three Places in New England/ii) Semper Fideles March (Three Places in New England/ii; "Country Band" March) Washington Post March (Symphony No. 4/ii; Central Park in the Dark)
Nov 8	1896	Date on manuscript: ink copy of song Frühlingslied
	1991	Death of pianist and Ives cataloguer and editor John Kirkpatrick at Ithaca, NY. After his premiering in 1938 of Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass. Kirkpatrick became the leading figure in Ives scholarship during the 20th century.
Nov 10	1879	Birth of poet Vachel Lindsay at Springfield, Mass. Ives used a Linday poem for song General Booth Enters into Heaven.
	1953	First publication: Ten Songs, New York: Peer International
Nov 11	1909	Ives hears Max Fiedler conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Reger, Brahms, and R. Strauss, at Carnegie Hall, New York City
		Veteran’s Day (annual): songs Tom Sails Away, In Flanders Fields, He Is There!, They Are There!
Nov 12	1946	Premiere: song Feldeinsamkeit/In Summer Fields (Maralin Dice [S] and Pauline Wenger [pf]), at University of California, Los Angeles, Calif.
Nov 13	1850	Birth of British poet Robert Louis Stevenson at Edinburgh, Scotland. Ives used a Stevenson poem for song Requiem.
	1854	Birth of composer and teacher George Chadwick at Lowell, Mass. Chadwick visited one of Ives’s music classes at Yale (taught by Horatio Parker, 30 Mar 1898) and admired Ives’s song Feldeinsamkeit above all other performed that day.
	1907	Harmony Twichell to Ives: "our Spring Song is a good one" (for which she wrote the lyrics).
	1933	Premiere: song Grantchester (Mary Bell [S] and Mabel Schneider [pf]), at New School, New York City
Nov 14	1900	Birth of pianist and critic (and composer) Aaron Copland at Brooklyn, NY. Copland accompanied the premiere of seven songs (1 May 1932) selected by him and subsequently published together: Charlie Rutlage, Evening, The Indians, Maple Leaves, The See’r, Serenity, and Walking, and an additional song in a later performance (1 Oct 1933) Where the eagle cannot see.
	1905	Premiere: lost Ragtime Dance tried at Globe Theatre; the piece became part of Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano, mvt. ii.
Nov 16	1953	First publication: orchestral The Gong on the Hook and Ladder, in New Music
Nov 17	1916	Birth of soprano Helen Boatwright at Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Boatwright sang for the first recording of songs Abide with me, Autumn, Berceuse, Canon, Disclosure, Down East, Feldeinsamkeit, He Is There!, In Flanders Fields, The "Incantation", Luck and Work, Maple Leaves, The New River, No More (premiere also), Old Home Day, On Judges’ Walk (premiere also), The One Way, Peaks, Pictures (premiere also), A Sea Dirge (premiere also), The Sea of Sleep, The See’r, Slow March, Swimmers, Tarrant Moss, There is a certain garden (premiere also), Tom Sails Away, Walking, Where the eagle cannot see, The White Gulls, Widmung, and Yellow Leaves (premiere also), and the premiere (only) of songs Kären, The Light That Is Felt, Sunrise, and Wiegenlied.
	1936	Premiere: song At Sea (John Baumgartner [B-Bar] and John Kirkpatrick [pf]), at Steinway Concert Hall, New York City
Nov 18	1969	First recording: songs The "Incantation", Luck and Work, No More, Old Home Day, On Judges’ Walk, The One Way, Peaks, Pictures, A Sea Dirge, The Sea of Sleep, Slow March, There is a certain garden, and Widmung (Helen Boatwright [S] and John Kirkpatrick [pf]; issued in 1974 by Columbia Records)
	1977	Premiere: band Runaway Horse on Main Street (Yale University Band, cond. by Keith Brion), in the realization by James B. Sinclair, at Woolsey Hall, New Haven, Conn.
Nov 20	1889	Birth of astronomer Edwin Hubble at Mansfield, Missouri. In 1922–24, Hubble proved that a vast array of galaxies exist beyond our own and, in 1929, proved that the universe was expanding rapidly. Ives’s Universe Symphony contemplates the universe as Newton understood it and goes on to contemplate the universe as described by Hubble.
	1897	Yale defeats Princeton football team 6–0 at Yale Field (New Haven, Conn.) inspiring Yale-Princeton Football Game
Nov 21	1961	First recording: Decoration Day [mvt. ii of "Holidays Symphony"] (The Louisville Orchestra, cond. by Robert Whitney; issued in 1962 by The Louisville Orchestra)
	1966	Premiere: piano Study No. 8 ( Bruce H. Eberle), Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Nov 22	1925	Birth of conductor and Ives arranger Gunther Schuller at New York City. Schuller has edited or arranged Sets No. 1–3, Chromâtimelôdtune, The General Slocum, and Yale-Princeton Football Game, and conducted for the first recording of Chromâtimelôdtune, The General Slocum, Yale-Princeton Football Game, and Scherzo: All the Way Around and Back. His performing version of Symphony No. 4 is widely used.
Nov 23	1950	Birth of Ives' webmaster (unofficial entry - just checking to see if you're paying attention)
Nov 24	1897	Date on manuscript: organ Prelude for Thanksgiving Service and Postlude for Thanksgiving Service at Center Church; both developed into Thanksgiving (mvt. iv of "Holidays Symphony").
	1908	Date on manuscript: chamber ens Adagio cantabile: The Innate [mvt. iii of A Set of Three Short Pieces], "Saranac Lake, N.Y."
Nov 27	1902	John C. Griggs sings song Autumn at "Poverty Flat" (New York City)
	1928	Premiere: Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano (Dorothy Minty [vn] and Marjorie Gear [pf]), at the Rudolph Schaeffer Studios, San Francisco, Calif.
Nov 28	1909	Date on manuscript: Orchestral Set No. 2, mvt. i, score (date on p. 1)
	1914	Date on manuscript: The Alcotts [mvt. iii of Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass.] "ended . . . from some themes for an Orchard House Overture, Aug. 1904—but for a page!"
	1922	Premiere: songs A Night Thought and "The Old Mother" [Du alte Mutter/My dear old mother] (George F. Madden [Bar] and Maurice Lafarge [pf]), at Town Hall, New York City
	1938	Premiere: Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass. (John Kirkpatrick [pf]), at The Old House, Cos Cob, Conn. (Paul Rosenfeld’s review in Modern Music: "the most intense musical experience by an American"); two months later Kirkpatrick gave the first New York performance (20 Jan 1939) at Town Hall.
Nov 29	1799	Birth of writer and philosopher Bronson Alcott at Wolcott, Conn. Ives memorialized the Alcott family in "The Alcotts" (mvt. iii of Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass.).
	1882	Danbury Evening News reports that a concert at the Methodist Church fills the hall—everybody cited approvingly—George Ives’s cornet solo encored—his ladies’ band played—all girls, but with "Master Charlie Ives, bass drum." Ives later scored memorably for the bass drum in Hallowe’en and Chromâtimelôdtune.
	1970	Premiere: The General Slocum and Yale-Princeton Football Game [Schuller realizations] (American Symphony Orchestra, cond. by Gunther Schuller), at Carnegie Hall, New York City
Nov 30	1905	Date on manuscript: "Poverty Flat" (New York City) residents criticize the "Country Band" March