Charles Ives - A Night Song

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The young May moon is beaming; love
The glow-worm's lamp is gleaming, love
How sweet to rove
Through Morna's grove
When the drowsy world is dreaming, love!
Then awake! The heavens look bright, my dear
'Tis never too late for delight
And best of all ways
To lengthen days
Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear
When the drowsy world is dreaming, love!
 
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Arguably the first modernist composer, Charles Ives (1874-1954) was a solitary figure who composed in obscurity for most of his life. The son of a U.S. Army bandleader, Ives enjoyed a wildly successful career as an insurance executive. In his spare time, he composed music in a wide variety of genres that combined popular song, church hymns, military marches, and European art music in ways that used tone clusters, polytonality, and other techniques decades before they were adopted by European composers.