It’s About Time
January 3, 2009
We’re always being surprised by time.
“It seems like only yesterday.”
“Where has the time gone?”
“It seemed like an eternity.”
Science has recently been wrestling with the complicated fact that half an hour spent in the dentist’s chair is actually not the same amount of time as a half hour in a lover’s arms. Einstein’s theories thus seem to have a more homely equivalent.
Since time is the water that music swims in, you may find particularly interesting these meditations on music and time by one of our more thoughtful performers.