He had to wait forty years to receive a recognition: a Pulitzer, but he donated the prize money to that young man who had brought his work to attention: Lou Harrison. Ives, with his job as an insurance agent, had earned enough for a decent burial. What one can glean from listening to Ives, the insurance agent Charles Ives, is that it is not so much about solving, but about resolving.
Charles Ives - Symphony No 3 (vinyl)