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The Three Places in New England (Orchestral Set No. 1) is a composition for orchestra by Charles Ives. It was composed across a long span of time (sketches date back from 1903, while the latest revisions were made in 1929), however the bulk was written between 1911 and 1914. The piece is famous for its use of musical quotation and paraphrasing, as explained later in this article. Three Places consists of three movements in Ives’ preferred slow-fast-slow movement order: :I. The “St. Gaudens” in Boston Common (Col. Shaw and his Colored Regiment) :II. Putnam’s Camp, Redding, Connecticut :III. The Housatonic at Stockbridge The three movements are ordered with the longest first and the shortest last, and a complete performance of the piece lasts eighteen or nineteen minutes. The... Read on...