Van de Schoonheid en de Troost — Season 1, Episode 18: The Unanswered Question: Richard Dufallo

Episode synopsis

Richard Dufallo, American conductor, gave a concert entitled 'The concert of beauty and consolation' for 'Of beauty and consolation' on February 6, 2000 in Muziekcentrum Vredenburg in Utrecht, performed by the Radio Symphony Orchestra, with the help of the Groot Omroepkoor and soloists Thomas Randle, Jeni Bern and Birgit Remmert. In between the music fragments, Dufallo pays attention to the questions of what beauty lies and where and how man finds consolation, the essence of an artist and the composers Charles Ives, Igor Stravinsky and Gustav Mahler.

About Van de Schoonheid en de Troost

To his guests – artists, scientists, writers, philosophers and musicians – Wim Kayzer in Of Beauty and Consolation asks the philosophical question: What makes this life worth living?

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Fathers Roses: Wole Soyinka
• E2Homecoming: Roger Scruton
• E3Alone on the mountain: Jane Goodall
• E4The Code of Pasternak: George Steiner
• E5The End of the Thirteenth: Vladimir Ashkenazy
• E6Thor, Newton, Einstein: Steven Weinberg
• E7Guilt: Martha Nussbaum
• E8You Are There and You Are Not: Karel Appel
• E9The Greatest Mystery Is Not the Universe: Edward Witten
• E10Dear Mother: Elizabeth Loftus
• E11When My Father Was Still Big: Rutger Kopland
• E12What's Mary Doing in the Cave: Gary Lynch