Aspects of Time
Saturday 22 November 2014
St Andrew's Anglican Church, Indooroopilly
“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping… There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
From The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
It makes one think, doesn’t it? In the weeks immediately prior to this concert, the world witnessed a space probe, Rosetta, land on a comet which is travelling half a billion kilometres from Earth. How can we fathom the amount of time it would take us to travel that distance? Although we have never travelled through space, it seems that time would stand still while moving weightlessly through outer space.
For those who have lived in a country which is covered in snow for six months of the year, it seems forever until spring comes around the corner and brings new life. And yet when one falls in the love for the first time, or a baby is born, those first years seem to move too fast and then they are gone.
Fusion's Aspects of Time program explored ways in which different composers set their music and text in order to create the suspension or acceleration of time.
St Andrew's Anglican Church, Indooroopilly
“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping… There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
From The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
It makes one think, doesn’t it? In the weeks immediately prior to this concert, the world witnessed a space probe, Rosetta, land on a comet which is travelling half a billion kilometres from Earth. How can we fathom the amount of time it would take us to travel that distance? Although we have never travelled through space, it seems that time would stand still while moving weightlessly through outer space.
For those who have lived in a country which is covered in snow for six months of the year, it seems forever until spring comes around the corner and brings new life. And yet when one falls in the love for the first time, or a baby is born, those first years seem to move too fast and then they are gone.
Fusion's Aspects of Time program explored ways in which different composers set their music and text in order to create the suspension or acceleration of time.
