What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised, unsettled, or challenged you, and in what way? (roughly 250 words)

200-word version: U of Virginia
Although I was a classical pianist in the beginning, after hearing for the first time the music of Duke Ellington, the progenitor of Swing Jazz as he literally began the jazz era, I bought a tenor saxophone because I was thoroughly animated by the music in Walt Disney’s Fantasia. I instantly became addicted to jazz and learned about more jazz musicians...