{"id":124,"date":"2015-02-07T17:54:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T17:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencedavis.org\/?p=124"},"modified":"2015-02-14T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T16:09:07","slug":"peloquin-and-ives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/2015\/02\/peloquin-and-ives\/","title":{"rendered":"Peloquin and Ives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;\"><em>[Originally published by <\/em><em>Lawrence<\/em> <em>Davis<\/em><em> on November 12<\/em><em>, 2012<\/em><em>]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I once saw a painting at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, titled \u201cThe Earth Everlastingly in Transition.\u201d\u00a0 It was a very beautiful painting, but what has stuck with me since then is the title.\u00a0 Life and art are also everlastingly in transition.\u00a0 At any given moment we can capture the experience of art, but then, almost immediately, we move on. Even the memory we may have of experiencing the art at that moment is subject to change. Canadian pianist Glenn Gould made a recording of the Bach Goldberg Variations in 1968, when he was 30, and another recording 20 years later.\u00a0 Those bookend recordings are astonishingly different from each other, yet they are the same piece.\u00a0 The transition came within Mr. Gould.\u00a0 Each performance brings its own insights into the music\u2014each the same, each different.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-125 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: -4px; margin-top: 5px; border: 3px solid #ebebeb;\" title=\"Peloquin and Ives\" src=\"http:\/\/ldavis.chcollins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Peloquin-and-Ives.jpg\" alt=\"Peloquin and Ives\" width=\"320\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Peloquin-and-Ives.jpg 320w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Peloquin-and-Ives-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Peloquin-and-Ives-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>Last spring, my colleague and friend of over twenty years Marc Peloquin gave a performance of Charles Ives Piano Sonata No. 2 (\u201cConcord, Massachusetts 1840-1860\u201d).\u00a0 The Concord Sonata is a piece of music that is almost unimaginably complex and beautiful and a piece of music that Charles Ives was endlessly absorbed in.\u00a0 Marc and I are working on a web project revolving around the Concord Sonata.\u00a0 It\u2019s a part of an ongoing conversation he and I have had about Ives in general and the Concord Sonata specifically.\u00a0 It\u2019s a piece that deserves every bit of attention you give to it and rewards your efforts with new revelations.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard Marc Peloquin play the Concord Sonata three different times and each time has been a completely different experience.\u00a0 For me, Marc has been a fearless Concord Sherpa, who leads his audiences to the peak of the mountain and guides them safely back.\u00a0 Marc is passionate about understanding the piece \u2014 researching, thinking, discussing, playing through the numerous edits.\u00a0 This sonata was everlastingly in transition for Ives, as he never seemed to \u201cfinish\u201d the piece, and now also for Marc and his audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Davis<\/p>\n<p><em>______________<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is the seventh essay that <\/em><em>Lawrence<\/em><em> posted on his blog &#8220;Reaching In.&#8221;\u00a0 It originally appeared at lawrence-davis.blogspot.com.\u00a0 You can hear Mr. Peloquin perform some of Piano Sonata No. 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WUOxU3Pxpnc\">here<\/a> and elsewhere on YouTube. &#8211; <\/em><em>CHC<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Originally published by Lawrence Davis on November 12, 2012] I once saw a painting at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, titled \u201cThe Earth Everlastingly in Transition.\u201d\u00a0 It was a very beautiful painting, but what has stuck with me since then is the title.\u00a0 Life and art are also everlastingly in transition.\u00a0 At any given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reaching-in-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}