Conductor-pianist Stephen Drury will talk about the
“Concord Sonata” by Charles Ives and then perform it. The
sonata (his second) is one of the most definitive American
piano works of the 20th century; each movement is named for
leading figures of the Transcendentalism movement of the 19th
century. 2024 is coincidentally the 150th anniversary of Ives’
birth.