James Sinclair is among the world's pre-eminent scholars and champions of the music of Charles Ives. He is the Music Director of Orchestra New England and Executive Editor for the Charles Ives Society, supervising the work of Ives scholars throughout the United States. Sinclair has served as music director for four PBS television documentaries including the Peabody Award-winning film about Ives, A Good Dissonance Like a Man. In 1999, Yale University Press published Sinclair's 800-page A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives.
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