Emphemeral continued

Today we are at Cleveland Film Festival watching a French film >>un baiser, si vous plait?<< And together with the talk of Nokolaj and the Carpathian concert this week, I strongly felt the power of one word again: Ephemeral.

I have written in the previous entry that musical moments are ephemeral, and so are the wonderful moments in life. In this film, in the end, a good kiss is ephemeral although it is one of the best moments, however, if we make it last longer, there'll be other complications that make it less wonderful and soon reveal the hard side of life. Even if it worked, how do we know the good kiss is not going to be "ephemeral" eventually? There are many good moments in life and of most of them we simply cannot make an effort to let them last longer and have to let them go. While this appears to be such a shame and pain, it might be the best thing to do in the long run. Human beings are so fickle and yet are incapable of grabing the moments to make it forever. And considering how life is indeed so wonderful and yet ephemeral in the universe. This is the deepest paradox beyond the deepest sorrow of human being.

Nikolaj Znaider-"Music is Ephemeral"

Recently I had such rare opportunity to meet one of the most widely performed successful violinists in the world today, Nikolaj Znaider, thanks to our wonderful music critic Andrew Druckenbrod.

Nikolaj is very down-to-earth. He stays calm and logic all the time, and observe, think and speak. I like his character. It's not like he wants to show off all the time.

Meanwhile, he does have precious perspectives on music. One thing that he mentioned about music touched me : he always says that music is ephemeral. Music is abstract and does not exist in matter. More importantly, he said music starts from nothing and ends in nothing--silence. If a musician is going to play a piece, he is going to play it differently every time and once he is done with a particular performance, this music will never exist in the same way any more.

Saying music is ephemeral really captures my heart because i always feel that these good times in life are ephemeral. Everything has an end. And even the whole world came into existence and vanishes, it wouldn't matter or even noticeable in the universe in time and space. This is the deepest sorrow of human being that I ever experienced.