Charles Ives - 'The Unanswered Question'

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Charles Ives - "The Unanswered Question"
CCM Concert Orchestra
Nov. 24, 2009
College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati


(pardon the sound, taken from camera behind orchestra)

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  • Please, who is the conductor (wonderful) and the orchestra (equally fine)?

    Thanks

  • @Bobbert153 conductor is Olivier Ochanine and orchestra is the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music's Concert Orchestra. :)

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  • In the background a quiet and hauntingly beautiful chorale of strings represents, said Ives, "the silence of the Druids." Over that silence a solo trumpet proclaims, again and again, an enigmatic phrase representing "the perennial question of existence." In response to each question, a quartet of winds Ives called the "fighting answerers" runs around in search of a reply, becoming more and more frustrated until they reach a scream of rage.

  • Excellent form for an excellent composition.

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  • Beautiful

  • lololololololololololololololo­lololololololol

  • perfect example of a Wall of Sound

  • @oliverdavidhill

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    Sounds exactly the same hehe!

  • beautiful. I am sure I will hear this when I die.

  • the first two seconds is identical to vaughan williams' thomas tallis fantasia?

  • It was mysterious I liked it.

  • This was used in "The Thin Red Line", the movie by Terrence Malick and I thought it was composed by Hans Zimmer. Thanks.

  • amazing usage of overtones

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