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Charles Ives: A Good Dissonance Like a Man (1977)
Directed by Ted Timreck
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.
Length 60 minutes
Actors
John Bottoms | Josh Hamilton | Sandra Kingsbury | John McIlwain | Richard Russell Ramos | Alan Shapiro | Louis Turenne | Louis Zorich | Christina Swing | Ed Lynch | Steve Katz | Mary Carter | Margaret Packer | Terry Stoller | Jonathan Golden | Michael Franks | Stuart Silver | Joel Zwick | Deborah Rush | Tiggy Eldred | Rudy Benda | Sandy Strenger | David Holzman | Lucille Frisa | Gregg Johnson | Sheila Devany | Greg Devany | Tom Devany | Richard Roberts | Ed Dittemore