Elemental

$2.75

This dramatic piece tackles some of the most pressing environmental crises in recent history. An urgent ostinato sets the scene and then shifts to storytelling mode, giving each natural disaster its full weight before returning to the ever-speaking urgency. Each voice part portrays a different element, and the choir uses singing, stomping, breath, sandpaper, and pouring water to elicit the sounds of the earth. As one headline states, “We are in a new abnormal.”

Poet/Lyricist: Athena Kildegaard

SKU: LK058-04 Category:

Flame to keep watch
Earth to make whole Air to lift up
Water life source

August 2017 during Hurricane Harvey more than 25 inches of rain fell in 24 hours $195 billion in damage.

Coal plants emit carbon dioxide, particulates, mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and thus acid rain, smog, greenhouse gas, brain damage, lung disease, heart disease

It takes a century for an inch of topsoil to form In 70 years if we continue at the current rate we will have lost 300 years worth of topsoil.

In August 2020 the Complex Fire in Northern California was started by lightning
1% of the whole state was burned.

“We are in a new abnormal.”

Premiered by the University of Minnesota Morris Choir under the direction of Laura Wiebe in Spring 2023.

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