Originally Posted By: bluage
Mr. Hayes...

You appear to possess a quality of musical inventiveness mixed with a sense of humor that manifests itself in a singularly original manner in your compositions. There is nobody like you on this User's Forum.

Listening to 'Halloween: Allegro Vivace (Charles Ives?)' made me feel as though I was witnessing a laboratory experiment in which musical notation substituted for chemical ingredients. The result was joyously unpredictable and entertaining, too!

By the way, I am a committed devotee of Charles Ive's music. I think that his musical triptych, 'Three Places in New England', and especially the third part, 'The Houstonic at Stockbridge', is one of the most sublimely spiritual works of musical art I've ever experienced.


Wow. I almost feel like I shouldn't quote you, out of modesty. =8^) Thank you, thank you. I am so glad I can do this kind of music and not be the only one who enjoys it – as poor Chuck himself must have felt a lot of the time.

Listening to "Housatonic" now. I'd never heard it before, and yes, it is gorgeous, like so many of his songs. Sometimes I think Ives found the perfect combination of heart and head in music. The "modern classical" genre would certainly be a much more soulless affair without him.

Thanks again for listen and thought.

Mark

Last edited by Mark Hayes; 10/30/21 08:53 AM.