Against Indifference by Caleb Hugo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

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Instrumentation: Bassoon and Orchestra

Duration: 17:30

Performance notes: I highly recommend that the bassoon be amplified artificially.

Philosophical Interpretation (Based on Pascal's "Against Indifference"):

Movement I, To the Apathetic

“But as for those who spend their lives without a thought for this final end of life and who, solely because they do not find within themselves the light of conviction, neglect to look elsewhere, and to examine thoroughly whether this opinion is one of those which people accept out of credulous simplicity or one of those which, though obscure in themselves, none the less have a most solid and unshakable foundation: as for them, I view them very differently.”

-Pascal

Movement II, A Lament for Doubt

“I can feel nothing but compassion for those who sincerely lament their doubt, who regard it as the ultimate misfortune, and who, sparing no effort to escape from it, make their search their principal and most serious business.”

-Pascal

Movement III, Search and Fruition

To live a life within the context of eternal existence gives us joy beyond our understanding.  Seek this truth, and it will reveal itself to you.