John Carroll University Carroll Collected Masters Essays Theses, Essays, and Senior Honors Projects 2017 DELAYED RECOGNITION: THE AMERICAN ORIGINAL, CHARLES IVES Bruce Hearey John Carroll University,
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[email protected]. DELAYED RECOGNITION: THE AMERICAN ORIGINAL, CHARLES IVES An Essay Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies College of Arts & Sciences of John Carroll University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts in Humanities By Bruce Hearey 2017 The essay of Bruce G. Hearey is hereby accepted: Advisor – Dr. Marcus Gallo Date Program Director – Dr. Maria Marsilli Date I certify that this is the original document Author – Bruce G. Hearey Date 1 In December 2011, New York’s Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater revived its solo piece “Journey,” set to the music of The Unanswered Question, by Charles Ives. The reviewer said that the dissonance and tensions of the sounds were extraordinary.1 Leonard Bernstein described The Unanswered Question as a metaphysical “question of existence” in his famous Harvard lecture of 1973.2 The Unanswered Question, a remarkable piece of only six minutes in length, was written in 1908.