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150 years after his birth, composer Charles Ives remains a maverick

Many music lovers consider Ives, who died in 1954, to be the first truly great American composer. A new recording by pianist Donald Berman is a major addition to the Ives discography.

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Lloyd Schwartz is the classical music critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross.