“We wait all night for a religion
that reads as science. Broad
as the rocks at the roots of continentsâ€Â
Charles Ives came to associate everyday music with profound emotions and spiritual aspirations. One of his father's most resonant pieces of wisdom came when he said of a stonemason's off-key hymn singing: "Look into his face and hear the music of the ages. Don't pay too much attention to the sounds--for if you do, you may miss the music. You won't get a wild, heroic ride to heaven on pretty little sounds."
In the "cosmic landscape" of The Unanswered Question, a trumpet repeatedly poses "the eternal question of existence" against a haunting background of strings, finally to be answered by an eloquent silence.
Charles Ives, "The Unanswered Question", Filarmonica della Scala Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Teatro della Scala, Milan, Italy June 11, 2006
Thanks, Wintereis, for your interesting contributions. I saw a stunning performance of Charles Ives' Third Symphony last year and I really like Adams' Harmonium.
wow. , .
i do love listening to instrumental music. . .but i rarely listen to classical ones. All i've listened are those played by bond, vanessa mae, maksim, and edvin marton. But i can hardly remember the composer of the songs. .
honestly, i don't really understand about the definition of 'classical' itself. i used to not listen classical musics so much when i was kid, so i don't know which composers or songs that is categorized by 'classical'
What piece of classical music do you like?
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