The Concept of Anxiety

"The Concept of Anxiety" is a composition for trumpet and piano, inspired by Sren Kierkegaard's philosophical work of the same name. Kierkegaard presents the example of a person standing on the edge of a cliff. When the person looks over the edge, they experience both an aversion to falling and the impulse to throw themself off. The sensation one feels is anxiety (or dread) because the person has the ability to choose. Kierkegaard refers to this as the "dizziness of freedom."