What is striking in Thailand is the compressed time frame, a vertiginous pace of change brought on by the country's rapid economic rise.
Evidently, conservatories are turning out virtuosi who are able to negotiate Boulez's scores and similarly thorny ones by such modernist masters as Elliott Carter and Milton Babbitt, with their sudden tempo changes and vertiginous leaps, as if they were Mozart.
One is the sheer vertiginous pace of technological change.
"You've got be the best / You've got to change the world," sings Bellamy over vertiginous arpeggios and a Eurobeat thud, before the whole thing comes crashing down thunderously and a 32-piece orchestra swoops in and picks it all up again.
Nonetheless, change has seldom been quicker and more vertiginous than today and we'll need human intelligence to reach a better future.
These storms and stresses included revolutionary political changes and acute political crises, dizzying economic progress and devastating economic disasters, vertiginous social changes, dislocations and disorder, World War I.
The effect is vertiginous.
It is a vertiginous moment.
