MUSIC TEXT CONTEXT

OBJECTIVE: TO PROVIDE CONTEXT FOR THE MUSICAL EXPERIENCE

“OUR TIME IS THE MODERN ERA, WEDGED IN BETWEEN A PAST KNOWN TO US AND A FUTURE UNKNOWN, COMING TOWARDS US IN AN ACCELERATING PACE OF CHANGES. SOCIETY IS CHANGING, AND ALL WE KNOW ABOUT TOMORROW IS THAT IT WILL BE DIFFERENT FROM TODAY, A NOTION THAT HAS BEEN A PART OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE FOR MORE THAN 400 YEARS, THE PERIOD WE CALL MODERNITY, CHARACTERIZED BY AN IMPERATIVE OF PROGRESS IN ALL MATTERS, TECHNOLOGICALLY, SCIENTIFICALLY, SPIRITUALLY,  ARTISTICALLY AND MUSICALLY.

MUSIC HAS IN ITS PARALELL RUN THROUGHOUT MODERNITY BECOME MIRROR OF SOCIETY, BOTH ADAPTING TO ITS TECHNOLOGIES AND ITS ZEITGEIST, FOUND DIFFERENT WAYS OF EXPRESSING FEELINGS OF THE INDIVIDUAL; JOY, YEARNING, ESTRANGEMENT, ECSTACY, FEAR. FOLK TUNES FOR INSTANCE – AS WELL AS  THE MADRIGALS OF MONTEVERDI – SING OF LOVE AND LOSS, AND WE DETECT IN THEM SIMILARITIES TO BOTH SCHUBERT AND THE BEATLES, ALTHOUGH THEY ARE DIFFERENT ALL THE SAME. WITH THIS PERSPECTIVE, WE HAVE AT OUR DISPOSAL 400 YEARS OF MUSIC THAT RELATES TO WHAT IT ENTAILS TO BE A HUMAN BEING IN MODERN TIMES. AN AMAZING AMOUNT OF ART THAT HAS THE POTENTIAL OF CARRYING INSIGHTS OF UNIVERSAL RELEVANCE AND QUITE SIMPLY KEYS TO WHAT IT MEANS TO BE WHO WE ARE.”