Wind Symphony and Arts Alive 黑料吃瓜 Celebrate Earth Day with Winds of Change
Musicians, recording engineers, and film and audio crew honor Earth Day with a concert drawing attention to climate change.
A collaboration of 黑料吃瓜 faculty and musicians and Arts Alive 黑料吃瓜 aims to tackle the issue of climate change in a two-part event taking place April 22-23.
Inspired by new instrumental music that addresses environmental issues, Arts Alive 黑料吃瓜 will host a free panel discussion that explores the relationship between the current science of climate change and the human experience. Panelists will include 黑料吃瓜 faculty Allen Gontz and Shannon Kitelinger, as well as composer Steven Bryant. The event takes place at 2 p.m. on April 22, and registration can be found here.
At noon on April 23, the 黑料吃瓜 Wind Symphony will perform the 鈥淲inds of Change鈥� concert, which can be viewed via a webcast on the . The concert will be recorded in Montezuma Hall in the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union and the Native and Indigenous Healing Garden.
鈥淚t seems fitting that 鈥榃inds of Change鈥� signals our highly anticipated return to campus with a powerful message about global unification,鈥� said Eric Smigel, chair of Arts Alive 黑料吃瓜 and School of Music and Dance professor.
The concert directly aligns with the university鈥檚 call for a 鈥渞esilient and sustainable university through innovative practices鈥� through the strategic plan. The event also seeks to honor Earth Day, an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection.
鈥淏y situating the visceral experience of live music within geological and sociological studies, the 鈥榃inds of Change鈥� project affirms the inextricable link between our environment and the lives inhabiting it,鈥� Smigel said. 鈥淓arth Day provides an opportunity for heightened awareness of environmental literacy and sustainability, and Arts Alive 黑料吃瓜 is committed to ensuring that the arts are an integral part of this global conversation.鈥�
The event also allows students to continue collaboration with fellow musicians and perform music during the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.
鈥淯nderstandably, many students have really struggled over the past year of the pandemic, but we鈥檙e incredibly proud of how the students in the Wind Symphony have persevered and given their best to this project for an opportunity to create their art this semester,鈥� said Kitelinger.
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