source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 09:35:10 -0700 Subject: Post From McLaren re Reinhard From: John Chalmers From: mclaren Subject: Johnny Reinahrd interview -- A very recent issue of "20th Century Music" contains a fascinating interview with Johnny Reinhard about his labors in rescuing from oblivion Charles Ives' "Universe Symphony." I must confess to having had my doubts about the utility of sepdning a whole bunch of effort on a fragmentary and icnomplete microtonal composition by a dead guy instead of Johnny spending time performing music by living microtonal composers. However, it turns out that once Johnny go t into the project he discovered that Ives' "Universe Symphony" was largely complete! So apparently it was simply the messy distribution and almost indecipherable scrawl of Ives' handwriting that deterred previous researchers from assembling Ives' "Universe Symphony" into a coherent whole. However, Johnny Reinahrd has now apparently managed this Herculean feat. So it looks as though congratulations are due all around. A long-neglected masterwork by a great American composer will soon be heard in New York. Good work, Johnny! --mclaren Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 10:30 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id BAA10951; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 01:30:09 -0700 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 01:30:09 -0700 Message-Id: <199606240829.BAA10841@eartha.mills.edu> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu