04-25-2007, 02:19 AM
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp...&Cat=10&Num=003
WEDNESDAY
APRIL 25, 2007
<b>The hearts of people meet through music</b>
By Hamid Golpira
<i>Dutch documentary filmmaker Frank Scheffer, who is known for the documentaries he has made on some of the worldâs outstanding composers, is in Iran to participate in a program arranged by Iranâs literary monthly Bokhara entitled âAn Evening with Frank Schefferâ, which will be held in Tehran at the Iranian Artists Forum on Thursday.
During his stay in Iran, he also plans to conduct research for his next film, which will focus on the Tehran Symphony Orchestra and its conductor, Nader Mashayekhi.
Along with Scheffer, Osnabruck Orient Festival director Michael Dreyer has traveled to Iran to attend the event as well as to hold discussions with the Tehran Symphony Orchestra and the Tehran Conservatory of Music to arrange some performances at the German festival.
The Tehran Times interviewed Scheffer and Dreyer, along with Mashayekhi, at Tehranâs Vahdat Hall on April 23:</i>
Following are excerpts of the interview.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Q</b>: <i>How do you see the global interaction in the context of the Maya calendarâs 2012 end date? Itâs not just the Maya tradition. Everybody from various traditions is saying that something is going to happen in the next few years. What are your views on that?</i>
<b>Scheffer</b>: As a matter of fact I lived a number of years in Mexico. If there was one culture in the world which was able to catch the abstraction of time, it is the Maya. Better than any civilization anywhere else in the world ever. They were able to grab time. Time is the most abstract thing.
Now science recently discovered that time doesnât exist.
Letâs say this awareness was there already for a much longer time in different cultures. Letâs say this awareness was there in ancient Persian times, in ancient Chinese times. I would say Taoism, as such, is understanding this whole idea of quantum mechanics already 3000 years ago.
Nothing is as we perceive it.
The Mayan culture, in this sense, was able very accurately to observe nature. And they figured out that at this time when we are speaking, the magnetic fields of the sun would line up in such a way that the energy of the sun and the solar winds would be so strong that they would affect our Earth.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
WEDNESDAY
APRIL 25, 2007
<b>The hearts of people meet through music</b>
By Hamid Golpira
<i>Dutch documentary filmmaker Frank Scheffer, who is known for the documentaries he has made on some of the worldâs outstanding composers, is in Iran to participate in a program arranged by Iranâs literary monthly Bokhara entitled âAn Evening with Frank Schefferâ, which will be held in Tehran at the Iranian Artists Forum on Thursday.
During his stay in Iran, he also plans to conduct research for his next film, which will focus on the Tehran Symphony Orchestra and its conductor, Nader Mashayekhi.
Along with Scheffer, Osnabruck Orient Festival director Michael Dreyer has traveled to Iran to attend the event as well as to hold discussions with the Tehran Symphony Orchestra and the Tehran Conservatory of Music to arrange some performances at the German festival.
The Tehran Times interviewed Scheffer and Dreyer, along with Mashayekhi, at Tehranâs Vahdat Hall on April 23:</i>
Following are excerpts of the interview.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Q</b>: <i>How do you see the global interaction in the context of the Maya calendarâs 2012 end date? Itâs not just the Maya tradition. Everybody from various traditions is saying that something is going to happen in the next few years. What are your views on that?</i>
<b>Scheffer</b>: As a matter of fact I lived a number of years in Mexico. If there was one culture in the world which was able to catch the abstraction of time, it is the Maya. Better than any civilization anywhere else in the world ever. They were able to grab time. Time is the most abstract thing.
Now science recently discovered that time doesnât exist.
Letâs say this awareness was there already for a much longer time in different cultures. Letâs say this awareness was there in ancient Persian times, in ancient Chinese times. I would say Taoism, as such, is understanding this whole idea of quantum mechanics already 3000 years ago.
Nothing is as we perceive it.
The Mayan culture, in this sense, was able very accurately to observe nature. And they figured out that at this time when we are speaking, the magnetic fields of the sun would line up in such a way that the energy of the sun and the solar winds would be so strong that they would affect our Earth.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->