Are My Ears on Wrong?: A Profile of Charles Ives

Overview

Dramatizations and actual archival film footage and photographs combine to relate the life of American composer Charles Ives and to document the musical background which influenced his work. Composers Aaron Copland and Elliott Carter reminisce about Ives and discuss his music.

Cast

Elliott Carter

Self

Aaron Copland

Self

Robert Henderson

Self - Narrator / Interviewer

Charles Ives

Self - Subject (archive footage)

John Kirkpatrick

Self

David M. Thompson

Self - Narrator