Yep. Great article by Wolfe. And part of his prescient book “Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.” If you haven’t read it, put it on your list.
But still, great music. Makes me want to say “just shut up and play!”
Yep.
Ives also had a day job, in the life insurance industry:
Soon after he graduated from Yale, he started work in the actuarial department of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York.[13] In 1899, Ives moved to employment with the insurance agency Charles H. Raymond & Co., where he stayed until 1906. In 1907, upon the failure of Raymond & Co., he and his friend Julian Myrick formed their own insurance agency Ives & Co., which later became Ives & Myrick, where he remained until he retired.[14] During his career as an insurance executive and actuary, Ives devised creative ways to structure life-insurance packages for people of means, which laid the foundation of the modern practice of estate planning.[15] His Life Insurance with Relation to Inheritance Tax, published in 1918, was well received. As a result of this he achieved considerable fame in the insurance industry of his time, with many of his business peers surprised to learn that he was also a composer. In his spare time he composed music and, until his marriage, worked as an organist in Danbury and New Haven as well as Bloomfield, New Jersey and New York City.[11]