Charles Ives: A Good Dissonance Like a Man

Overview

A thoroughly researched biopic of Charles Ives, America's greatest and most innovative composer (and insurance executive), who combined strikingly futuristic experimentalism with gentle nostalgia. Includes narration taken directly from Ives's own writings, and reminiscence from those who knew him.

Details

Cast

John Bottoms

Charles Edward Ives

Josh Hamilton

Young Charles Ives

Sandra Kingsbury

Harmony Ives

John McIlwain

Horatio Parker

Richard Russell Ramos

George Edward Ives

Alan Shapiro

Delivery Boy

Louis Turenne

Franz Milke

Louis Zorich

George W. Chadwick

Christina Swing

Mary Elizabeth Ives

Ed Lynch

Minister

Steve Katz

Mary Carter

Margaret Packer

Terry Stoller

Jonathan Golden

Michael Franks

Stuart Silver

Joel Zwick

Deborah Rush

Tiggy Eldred