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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