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Impulse and implication. It is wide-ranging and
capacious. It has passion, tenderness, humor,
simplicity, homeliness. It has imaginative and
spiritual vastness. It has wisdom, beauty and
profundity, and a sense of the encompassing terror
and splendor of human life and human destiny—a
sense of those mysteries that are both human and
divine . . . Charles Ives is as unchallengeably
American as the Tale Pence. . . ."O
jjfhe next milestone of success was marked by the 19*+7
performance of the Third Symphony by Barone's New York
Little Symphony, under the baton of Lou Harrison. This
symphony was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. That year Ives met
the awarding committee with the statement: "Prizes are for
boys. I'm grown up."21 One can be sure Ives was glad his
music was liked but he was unimpressed by all the "to-do,"
and he refused all requests from metropolitan and news-
service reporters for interviews and pictures. All prizes
were the "badges of mediocrity" as far as he was concerned,
and he gave the prize-money of $500 away.
Since his highly susceptible nervous system reacted in
various unfortunate ways to any surprise or stress, Ives, in
his later years, saw only old friends. Radios and record-
ings afforded no enjoyment since a hearing disability
brought about a wavy distortion of sounds that was intensi-
fied when he tried to listen to music. This same nervous
^Score of the Concord Sonata. 2nd ed., last unnumbered
page*
^Mcoles Slonimsky, "Musical Rebel," AmericasiV
(September 1953), 8.
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Harer, Carolyn Bertha. Charles Ives and a Stylistic Analysis of his Three Piano Sonatas, thesis, 1955; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97073/m1/31/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .