Songs My Mother Taught Me (Charles Ives song)
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"Songs My Mother Taught Me" is the title of a song for voice and piano, written by Charles Ives
(S. 361, K. 6B21c) in 1895 and set to a poem by Adolf Heyduk
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Ives' song was written some fifteen years after Dvořák
's setting of the same poem. New York City Ballet
balletmaster Jerome Robbins
used it for one of the dances he made in Ives, Songs
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Charles Ives
Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...
(S. 361, K. 6B21c) in 1895 and set to a poem by Adolf Heyduk
Adolf Heyduk
Adolf Heyduk was a distinguished Czech poet and writer. Many of his poems were later adapted by Antonín Dvořák.-Life:...
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Ives' song was written some fifteen years after Dvořák
Antonín Dvorák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
's setting of the same poem. New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
balletmaster Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...
used it for one of the dances he made in Ives, Songs
Ives, Songs
Ives, Songs is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to songs of Charles Ives: *The Children's Hour*Memories, Part A: Very Pleasant*Waltz*The Cage*The See'r*Two Little Flowers*At the River and Serenity*He is There...
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