Bear's Sonic Journals: Concordance — 150 Years of Charles Ives CD

Concordance: 150 Years of Charles Ives

• John Kirkpatrick, Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord, Mass., 1840 - 1860", recorded by Owsley Stanley & Phil Lesh at the Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium, March 7, 1974
  
• Donald Berman, Piano Sonata No. 2, plus Concord Legacy: Other Transcendentalists, recorded in Concord, Mass. by OSF, February 8, 2025
• 2 CDs
• 112 pages of notes exploring the influence of Charles Ives on Phil Lesh and the music of the Grateful Dead, why the Kirkpatrick recording was so important to him, the intersection between Deadheads and Ivesheads, detailed listening notes, and insights from Donald Berman regarding improvisation and Ives and the two variations of the Concord Sonata.