Name: Charles Ives & the American Tradition: Composers with a Side Hustle
Start: 2024-08-09T20:00:00
Location: Yale School of Music

Serena Canin

William Purvis

Yale School of Music

Hear the School’s top musicians in an evening of inspiring performances by winners of the annual chamber music competition.

Chamber Music Competition Winners

Yale University

This program is dedicated to composers who also had other jobs. Ives was an insurance executive whose work laid the groundwork for the field of estate planning. Borodin was a noted chemist who made some important discoveries in organic chemistry. And Philip Glass made ends meet in the 1970s as a taxi driver.