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Charles Ives - Memories

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(Very Pleasant)
We're sitting in the opera house;
We're waiting for the curtain to arise
With wonders for our eyes;
We're feeling pretty gay
And well we may
"O, Jimmy, look!" I say
"The band is tuning up
And soon will start to play."
We whistle and we hum
Beat time with the drum

We're sitting in the opera house;
We're waiting for the curtain to arise
With wonders for our eyes
A feeling of expectancy
A certain kind of ecstasy
Expectancy and ecstasy... Sh's's's

(Rather Sad)
From the street a strain on my ear doth fall
A tune as threadbare as that "old red shawl,"
It is tattered, it is torn
It shows signs of being worn
It's the tune my Uncle hummed from early morn
'Twas a common little thing and kind 'a sweet
But 'twas sad and seemed to slow up both his feet;
I can see him shuffling down
To the barn or to the town
A humming
 
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tune that had a mournful sound\r\nAnd I can see him in his chair\r\nWith a vacant, far-off stare\r\nHumming that old tune with such despair\r\n\r\n(Reflective)\r\nBut now the years have passed\r\nAnd that tune is but a memory\r\nA memory of simpler times\r\nOf childhood and of family\r\nA memory that brings both joy and sorrow\r\nA memory that will stay with me forever\r\nAs I sit in the opera house\r\nWaiting for the curtain to rise\r\nI can't help but think of that old tune\r\nAnd the memories it brings to my eyes\r\nMemories that are very pleasant\r\nIn this moment of expectancy\r\nI close my eyes and let the music take me\r\nTo a place where memories are free.

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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.