The EABB Podcast focuses on providing information about past and current Early American (19th-century) brass bands through interviews, lectures, and musical recordings. Each episode will have a topic (specific bands, bandleaders, instruments, composers, etc..) or guest (historian, bandleader, active musician) that the participants will talk about. The participants can be any combination of host, co-host, and guest. The goal of the podcast is to connect and share the early American brass band community in the United States. Current bands will have an opportunity to be highlighted and historical bands will have an opportunity to be taught and kept alive.
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episode 2: 42 - Interview with Dr. Tom C. Owens: The Life and Music of George and Charles Ives
Episode 42 is our conversation with Dr. Tom C. Owens, Dr. Owens is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Music History and Literature at George Mason University. He’s internationally regarded as an expert on Charles Ives’s life and music, and is the editor of Selected Correspondence of Charles Ives (Univ. of California Press, 2007) and a member of the board of the Charles Ives Society. In the episode, we talk about George and Charles Ives, their music, relationship, and much more
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Music in this episode comes from The President’s Own United States Marine Band, and The 8th GM Regiment Band.
Episode Structure:
3:19 - Dr. Owens' musical background
5:27 - How Dr. Owens got interested in Charles Ives
7:06 - The Ives Archive at Yale University
8:44 - Dr. Owens' PhD dissertation topic - American sentiments in music
18:42 - Musical culture in New England in the mid-late 1800's, George Ives' early life and career
26:11 - George's brief service in the Union Army as a bandleader
29:03 - George's activities after the Civil War - Ives Cornet Band
32:51 - George's influence on Charles, their relationship
38:59 - Amateurism in music
44:56 - Town band culture, effect on Charles' music
48:43 - Band arrangements of Charles Ives' Music, Variations on America
53:34 - More correspondence between George and Charles, their personal and musical relationship
58:16 - Biographies of Charles Ives, looking back on the influence of his music
1:07:00 - Where to start if you're wanting to begin listening to Charles Ives' music
1:13:30 - Where you can find more about Dr. Owens' research and his book