The Unanswered Question
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The Unanswered Question is a musical work by American composer Charles Ives. Originally paired with Central Park in the Dark as Two Contemplations in 1908, The Unanswered Question was revised by Ives
Charles Ives in 1913
Ives may have been quoting the line "Thou art the unanswered question" from Emerson's 1847 poem "The Sphinx".
Druid
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A druid was a member of the learned class of the ancient Celtic peoples of Gaul and Britain, described by Greek and Roman writers as a priest, teacher, judge and custodian of religious and legal tradi
The Unanswered Question
…unknown until much later in his life, and was not performed until 1946. 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…
Julius Caesar, whose Commentarii de Bello Gallico is the earliest detailed account of the druids.
Roman troops attacking the druids on Anglesey, as described by Tacitus. A 19th-century imagining of the scene.
'An Arch Druid in His Judicial Habit', an imaginative illustration from S. R. Meyrick and C. H. Smith, The Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands (1815). The gold collar copies a Bronze Age Irish gorget.
The oak and mistletoe ritual depicted by Henri-Paul Motte (1900)