Ives the entrepreneur

Charles Ives' reputation, newly filtered through Gayle Sherwood Magee's "Charles Ives Reconsidered," "has metamorphosed from [that of] eccentric uncle into cagey impresario and entrepreneur . . . a master salesman who recognized that, at particular moments, nuttiness would sell," composer David Schiff writes in The Nation:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090105/schiff