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About Our EcoEcho Concerts
Each concert offers multi-sensory experiences viscerally communicating the urgency of climate action and highlighting solutions.
These performances are live-streamed to groups at “Streaming Partner” sites throughout the US and beyond (e.g., universities, religious venues, museums, community centers, or even someone’s living room).
These 90-minute events highlight ClimateMusic compositions – original, compelling, science-informed music created through the collaboration of composers and climate scientists.
About Our June 16th Concert
This event is hosted by California Academy of Sciences and Gardens of Golden Gate Park, featuring the original piece “Icarus in Flight” composed by Richard Festinger with ClimateMusic, performed by a chamber quartet of musicians from the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.
We are excited to also share the premiere of our newest piece “Feel it All” composed by Raine Stern. Be prepared to dance!
Tickets and more information will be provided shortly.
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Become a Sponsor or a Streaming Partner
If you are interested in becoming a concert sponsor, please drop us a line at info@climatemusic.org
There is no cost to participate as a streaming partner; you simply commit to bringing together a group to watch our live streamed concerts. We hope that you will be inspired by the concert to engage your people in a post-stream conversation around climate solutions. Find more information HERE.
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About Icarus in Flight
Icarus in Flight is an original chamber work by composer Richard Festinger in collaboration with The ClimateMusic Project. It explores three human drivers of the climate crisis–population growth, carbon emissions, and land-use change–over two centuries, from 1880-2080.
About Richard Festinger
Richard has garnered international recognition for his extensive catalogue of vocal and instrumental compositions. Writing for the 2011 Tanglewood Music Festival, Frank J. Oteri describes Festinger’s music as “notable for its combination of propulsive energy with an impeccable sense of poise and balance,” and WQXR Radio in New York has dubbed him “an American master.” Festinger is professor of composition at San Francisco State University where he is also Artistic Director of the Morrison Artists Series. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in composition from the University of California, Berkeley, and in the mid 1980s co-founded the acclaimed San Francisco based modern music ensemble Earplay. Festinger’s music is published by C.F. Peters Corporation and Wildcat Canyon Music Press, and his works have been recorded for the Naxos, Bridge, CRI, Centaur, and CRS labels. The recipient of numerous major awards and commissions, he has been honored with both the Walter Hinrichsen Award and an Academy Recording Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In the late 1960s Richard toured as a guitarist with Joan Baez and appeared on-stage with her at Woodstock in 1969.
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