Plot: 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