MEMETERIA by Thomas May

Music & the Arts

Earth Song: How Music Can Serve as a Response to the Climate Crisis

Trey Lee, Eldbjorg Hemsing, and John Luther Adams

Included in the latest issue of Strings magazine is my story on efforts by Trey Lee, Eldbjorg Hemsing, and John Luther Adams to address the climate crisis:

Nature sings in the work of countless composers in the Western classical tradition. The calls and flutterings of birds, spine-tingling thunder, falling raindrops: Vivaldi transformed a repertoire of found sounds from the natural world into some of the most memorable moments in The Four Seasons. …

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