Us, the most fleeting of all

 

for Clare Hammond

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“But because truly being here is so much;

because everything here

apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way

keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.

Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too,

just once. And never again. But to have been

this once, completely, even if only once:

to have been one with the earth, seems beyond undoing.”

 

Rilke, “Ninth Duino Elegy”

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"Us, the most fleeting of all" is a reflective piece of time.

It captures our fleeting yet essential nature as Rilke contemplates the unique and unrepeatable moments that make up the fabric of existence.

Designed to be experienced "in its entirety, even if only once,"

I want this piece to celebrate the ephemeral beauty of life and time. 

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The Royal Philharmonic Society commissioned Sun Keting as one of its 2024 Composers to write this work for Clare Hammond and Cheltenham Music Festival

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