The beautiful music and the images in this video remind me that we are the product of our cumulative pasts. As we progress from one lifetime to the next, the continuous stream of consciousness continue to affect our present and future.
Claire Chase performs Edgard Varèse's "Density 21.5," a piece of music for solo flute, on a platinum flute. The density of platinum is approximately 21.5 grams per cubic centimeter.
This is a quite lively piano sonata by Beethoven with percussion and melody, thick rhythms and thin, staccatos and legatos...played wonderfully by the talented Daniel Barenboim