NEW SONG CYCLE RELEASED JULY 1st 2024!

Imagine the World of Tomorrow? This bold new song cycle addresses the impact of technology on our youth. Rather than treat them as the victims, these pieces empower our singers in an impassioned call to action that will ignite discussion and awarenss. It is also a lot of fun.

South Australian Public Primary Schools Music Festival 2023 COMMISSIONED WORK

WORLD OF TOMORROW

by Paul Jarman

In this rapidly evolving modern world, it is hard to imagine a world less than two hundred years ago with no electricity, no running water or central heating and cooling, no antibiotics, no cars, trucks and buses, no planes and no telephones, let alone smart phones, the internet, smart TV’s, computers, driverless cars, robots, smart watches, Bluetooth speakers and headphones, MRI’s, X-rays, GPS tracking systems, smart boards, video games and artificial intelligence; all things we use nearly every day and mostly take for granted.

And as technology changes more rapidly than we can keep up with it, and while it continues to have a greater impact on all of life, how we manage our lives, our health, our relationships and our families, our careers, our privacy, our opinions; how we go about each day within a world where the rest of the population are exploring the same challenges, is all having a large impact on the human race; and it is happening faster than we can manage it.

The world has changed more in the past fifty years than in the past two hundred and fifty years, and the population has exploded at the same time. But among all these changes, the most defining thing is that we have an endless amount of knowledge at our fingertips 24/7.

While some of the differences above have been for the better, some are not, and we are in a time of rapid change that is impacting on the human condition. Are we heading the right way?

The challenges of this rapidly changing world form the theme of this bold new four-part Song Cycle for the 2023 festival of music, “World of Tomorrow”.

FOUR PIECES all for Treble Choir can be sung as the cycle or as stand alone works.

1 Away from the Screen https://stage.pauljarman.com/composition/away-from-the-screen/

2 Keep the Truth Alive https://stage.pauljarman.com/composition/keep-the-truth-alive/

3 Follow My Own Dream https://stage.pauljarman.com/composition/follow-my-own-dream/

4 This is Our World https://stage.pauljarman.com/composition/this-is-our-world/