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Charles Ives - Tom Sails Away

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Scenes from my childhood are with me
I'm in the lot behind our house upon the hill
A spring day's sun is setting
Mother with Tom in her arms
Is coming towards the garden;
The lettuce rows are showing green
Thinner grows the smoke o'er the town
Stronger comes the breeze from the ridge
'Tis after six, the whistles have blown
The milk train's gone down the valley
Daddy is coming up the hill from the mill
We run down the lane to meet him
But today! In freedom's cause Tom sailed away
For over there, over there!
Scenes from my childhood
Are floating before my eyes
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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.
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