RUGGLES, Carl

Perhaps the most painstaking of the modern composers, Ruggles produced relatively few works that were constantly revised and rearranged, so that the complete Ruggles could easily fit onto 2 compact discs (in contrast to his contemporary Charles Ives , who produced bundles of music and rarely revised). He worked for thirteen years on an opera designed for his singer-wife, titled it The Sunken Bell, but never completed it. One reason why he finished so little was the lack of local support...