parola.org http://www.parola.org/blog Mon, 06 May 2013 20:20:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Program Note for ‘this view of life’ http://www.parola.org/blog/?p=1533 http://www.parola.org/blog/?p=1533#comments Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:45:58 +0000 Jeff http://www.parola.org/blog/?p=1533 It turns out that the one reliable, universal constant is change. One need not look too far to understand this reality: just take a good look in the mirror every day, and you’ll see it in yourself. Even the predictable constants of nature are changing, like the sun, for instance. Though it shines brightly every day, closer study reveals the unpredictability of its volatile surface. It seems that as we grow as a species, we have increasingly let go of a wide variety of absolutes and assumed constants. As we study more about ourselves, the earth, and the cosmos, we realize that such absolutes and constants are surface illusions of a deeper, broader change present in all things, and consequently, the idea of permanence has grown to find itself weak and indefensible. When considering this notion of change as it pertains to human life, one realizes that change is what brought us into existence, and ultimately, will take us out of it. This is why we must praise and lament our precious existence, as it is both a triumph and a tragedy of a universe that was destined to create and destroy it.

World premiere performance of this view of life
Sunday, 19 May 2013 @ 5PM
St. Luke in the Fields, NYC [map]
Choral Chameleon & string quartet
Vince Peterson, conductor

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