A review of an Ives album, from the KFJC (Los Altos Hills!) website including this succinct description of The Unanswered Question:
over a slowly shifting bed of strictly diatonic strings, a trumpet asks a 5-note question, and a woodwind quartet answers. Repeat 5 times, woodwinds getting more and more atonal and crazed. Existential burning consumes you.
In my previous Unanswered Question post, M. Keiser of Music in a Suburban Scene comments that it still sounds as if it could have been written last year. Timeless indeed.
Cujo, the KFJC reviewer, also points out Decoration Day is what we now call Memorial Day.
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