Complete Ives's Unfinished Work

Complete Ives’s Unfinished Work

The Ives Vocal Marathon is hosting a competition to complete Ives’s unfinished song “Smoke,” built on text by Thoreau.

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NewMusicBox Staff

Hey there, Ives fans: Here’s your chance to leap into the man’s brain—or at least try on his compositional style for a bit. The Ives Vocal Marathon is hosting a competition to complete Ives’s unfinished song “Smoke,” built on a text by Thoreau. The materials can be found here. Entries should be submitted via the website as PDF files. They will be adjudicated by some of the various panelists of the IVM, including Ken Steen, James Sinclair, and Neely Bruce. The winning score will be performed during the Ives Vocal Marathon.