Performed by the NY Philharmonic and Leonard Bernstein. Charles Ives was probably the best classical composer ever to come out of America. The Unanswered Question is a study in consonance and dissonance, tonality and atonality, some passages are startlingly beautiful, before giving way to a cacophany of instruments fighting for dominance over one another - a tremendously difficult momentum to sustain, and to perform... Great introduction to atonal music.
Also features a piece by Elliot Carter - Ives's protege - called 'Central Park in the Dark'.
Charles Ives - the Unanswered Question
performed by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic
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