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cemaphonic

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33. Ives was a pretty singular genius.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #26)

Tue Jul 11, 2017, 03:35 PM

Jul 2017

Not only did he write groundbreaking pieces of music that introduce techniques 50 years ahead of their time, he paid the bills by basically inventing the whole modern life insurance model.

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