Charles Ives - Symphony n.4 - I. Prelude: Maestoso

I don't usually post parts of pieces but I've recently been asked to write a setting of Lowell Mason's "Morning Star" for the funeral of a wonderful old lady.   Charles Ives' use of it went through my head the entire time but my setting is far more conventional.   Well, with one unresolved dissonance or so.

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus