In 1939, lves was sixty-five, American pianist John Kirkpatrick played Concord Sonata in Town Hall. The reviews were laudatory. One reviewer proclaimed it “the greatest music composed by an American.” By 1947, lves was famous. His second Symphony was presented to the public in a performance by the New York Philharmonic, fifty years after it had been written. The same year, lves received the Pulitzer Prize. He was seventy-three