Karl Miller wrote:

>However, when I listened to the 9th, I felt profoundly moved...not unlike
>my response to the Mahler 10th...and Copland's Inscape...works which,
>for me, really seem to reach for the infinite...which suggests to me an
>interesting question...what music do all of you find that seems to be
>looking for...and I don't mean to sound flip...some meaning for all that
>there is?  I don't mean a notion of "heavenly" music, but substantive
>works that seem to be looking for meaning beyond what we know.  Perhaps
>like Ives' Unanswered Question.

The slow movements of Elgar's First Symphony and Violin Concerto come to
mind.

Roger Hecht