Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question

Against a background of slow, quiet strings representing "The Silence of the Druids", a solo trumpet poses "The Perennial Question of Existence", to which a woodwind quartet of "Fighting Answerers" tries vainly to provide an answer, growing more frustrated and dissonant until they give up.
Composer: Charles Ives
Year of composition: 1908
Conductor: Ludovic Morlot
Orchestra: Seattle Symphony
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[@ligayabarlow5077]

Is there a better reason to be alive?

[@miguelfontesmeira]

So beautiful and extremely significant!

[@tracey7867]

Beautiful, thank you for posting

[@ethanhill9460]

This is a superior version of this work compared with others i've heard.. I'm adding it to my YT Library. and deleting the others.
I knew of IVES in high school. I am a music lover rather than a musician. I chose where to matriculate in part because IVES is a graduate of the university. I am honored to share a fraternal affiliation with him as a function of where I attended college and collegiate politics.
IVES is and will be always the most important American composer of art music. This music substantiates the claim.

[@jeffreyfeinstein5525]

...carries the heaviest of weight - yet light the softest continuum of a heavenly breeze.

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I love this piece of music.

[@bazdesh]

ending on a Bb eh?