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

Valentina Kozlova

Buffy Miller

Leslie Roy

Damian Woetzel

Albert Evans

Jeppe Mydtskov

James Sewell

See also

List of ballets by title

Footnotes

External links

Reviews

NY Times review by Anna Kisselgoff, May 2, 1988

NY Times review by Jennifer Dunning, January 7, 1989

NY Times review by Jennifer Dunning, May 1, 2006

1988 ballet premieres

Ballets by Eliot Feld

Ballets to the music of Charles Ives

New York City Ballet repertory

New York City Ballet American Music Festival

The Unanswered Question (ballet)