art by Lily El-Naccash
Join us for a moving and uplifting concert that explores climate change — and what we can do about it — through music.
Sunday, Dec 15, 2024
Pre-concert talk: 2:15-2:45 pm (livestream)
Concert: 3:00 pm (livestream)
Baldwin Auditorium, Duke University’s East Campus
Online program
Free admission (donations gratefully accepted for Notes of Hope to sustain music education programs in western North Carolina as they rebuild and recover after Hurricane Helene.)
Dr. Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, conductor
Why climate change? As health professionals and community members, we’ve grown increasingly worried about the ways that climate change is harming our health, through intensifying storms and heat waves, worsening air quality, and more. Our members are responding to this threat with action, and at this event, we’ll invite you to join us.
The most important thing an individual can do right now is not be such an individual. – Bill McKibben
Pre-concert speakers
- Steven Bryant, composer
- Peter Askim, composer
- Nichola Clark, senior officer, ocean governance, Pew Charitable Trusts
- Tony Huang, M.D., M.H.S., professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at Duke University Medical Center
Panel moderated by
- Sara Peach, editor-in-chief of Yale Climate Connections
- Dr. Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, Artistic Director and Conductor, Durham Medical Orchestra, Duke University, Department of Music Chair
Livestream the pre-concert talk here
On the program
- Earth, Penka Kouneva
- City Trees (orchestral version originally commissioned by DMO in 2015), Michael Markowski
- The Automatic Earth (orchestral premiere), Steven Bryant
- As Glaciers Thaw…, Peter Askim
- Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral Symphony”) in F major, Ludwig van Beethoven
Can’t join us? Livestream the concert here
What you can do
Advice from climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe:
If you are worried about climate change and want to make a difference,
- Reduce your personal footprint AND make your actions contagious by talking about them.
- Start a conversation about why climate change matters and what people can do
- Join a climate action group
- Consider where you keep your money
- Spark ideas for change at work & school
- Hold politicians accountable
