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

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

26 mins | Documentary, Music | March 4, 1979

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.

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

26 mins | Documentary, Music | March 4, 1979

Are My Ears on Wrong?: A Profile of Charles Ives
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.
Producers BBC Open University Production Centre
Original title Are My Ears on Wrong?: A Profile of Charles Ives
Directors David M. Thompson
Writers

Cast

Elliott Carter

as Self

Aaron Copland

as Self

Robert Henderson

as Self - Narrator / Interviewer

Charles Ives

as Self - Subject (archive footage)

David M. Thompson

as Self - Narrator