The Unanswered Question (ballet)

This article is about Eliot Feld's 1988 dance. For Charles Ives' 1906 composition, see The Unanswered Question.

The Unanswered Question: Some Intimations of the American Composer Charles Ives is a ballet made by Eliot Feld to Charles Ives' The Unanswered Question, Calcium Light Night, Fugue in Four Keys, Mists, From the Housatonic at Stockbridge, Sonata No. 2 for Piano and Violin (In the Barn), Remembrance and An Old Song Deranged. The premiere took place April 30, 1988, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, as part of New York City Ballet's American Music Festival with lighting by the Feld Ballet's Allen Lee Hughes and Willa Kim's costumes. Other works to the music of Ives in the City Ballet repertory include Peter Martins' Calcium Light Night, Jerome Robbins' Ives, Songs and George Balanchine's Ivesiana.

Original cast

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List of compositions
Orchestral works	Calcium Light Night Central Park in the Dark Orchestral Set No. 1: Three Places in New England Orchestral Set No. 2 Symphony No. 1 in D minor Symphony No. 2 Symphony No. 3 (The Camp Meeting) Symphony No. 4 A Symphony: New England Holidays Universe Symphony (unfinished)
Concertante	Emerson Concerto
Chamber music	Tone Roads No. 1 Hymn Hallowe'en The Gong on the Hook and Ladder Piano Trio String Quartet No. 1 String Quartet No. 2
Piano works	Piano Sonata No. 2
Vocal music	Psalm 90 Songs My Mother Taught Me
Other compositions	The Unanswered Question Variations on "America"
Related people	Julian Myrick (business partner) Joseph Twichell (father-in-law)
Named for Ives	Ives (crater) Ives Ice Rise
Related articles	American Five Charles Ives House Charles Ives Prize Ivesiana Ives, Songs The Unanswered Question (ballet) Mists: Charles Ives for Jazz Orchestra
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