Five questions with questions with Jeremy Denk

Nearly 100 years old, Charles Ives' Sonata No. Concord, 1840-1860,” belongs on the short list of the greatest works of art created by an American. It's a massive piece, a 45-minute mash-up of piled dissonance and cragginess, rugged beauty and wistful nostalgia, American hymns and Beethoven, Scottish airs and Mendelssohn. Here is the quintessential American maverick throwing off the yoke of Europe to invent truly American classical music....

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