Tour of the Charles Ives Birthplace Museum

Schedule

Sat Oct 15 2022 at 02:30 pm to 03:30 pm

Location

5 Mountainville Ave | Danbury, CT

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Tour the birthplace of Charles Ives: musical maverick, father of American classical music, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer.
About this Event

FREE Tours of the Danbury Museum Sponsored by the Danbury Cultural Commission!

As a gift to visitors and residents of the Danbury community, Danbury Cultural Commission is financially supporting FREE tours at the Danbury Museum (on both our Main Street Campus and at the Charles Ives Birthplace) from September 9 through December 17. Together, we celebrate the city, the community, and the museum's 80th anniversary. These free tours will allow us to improve equitable access to the Museum and our programming across greater Danbury.

Tours originate at the Ives Birthplace Museum located at 5 Mountainville Avenue, begin at 2:30 and take roughly an hour. Please note the home is NOT air conditioned.

"The music of Charles Ives, which on first acquaintance generally strikes listeners as willfully eccentric, grew from a 'long foreground' as Emerson said of Walt Whitman's equally eccentric Leaves of Grass. Ives well understood how insistently the past remained present in his work." --Jan Swafford, Charles Ives, A Life With Music.

Join us for the soft opening of the Ives Birthplace. Take a guided tour of the birthplace of Danbury's Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Charles Edward Ives. Learn about the sights and sounds that influenced Ives, as well as the Danbury he would have known so well as a young man. The great impact of the Ives family on Danbury history is explored here as well.

We are most grateful for our generous benefactor, Savings Bank of Danbury, for making the re-opening of the Ives Birthplace possible!


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5 Mountainville Ave, 5 Mountainville Avenue, Danbury, United States

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