The filming of our new documentary “The Unanswered Ives” (WT), directed by Anne-Kathrin Peitz, is now completed. Ives is regarded today as the first composer of the modern age in America. The documentary will shed light on Charles Ives’ life and work in all its facets and inconsistencies. “The Unanswered Ives” explores the musical world according to Ives by scenes filmed in Germany and the USA, with performances, among others, in a church, a circus, an old theater and a limestone cave. Furthermore, musicologists, musicians as well as Ives grandson, Charles Tyler, give their own answers to the question which has hardly yet been answered today: who was Charles Ives? Here are some impressions:
