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They described ways in which life has already been affected by climate change, while the music sketched a paradisiacal landscape in harps and swooping strings. This mingled orchestral electronic and vocal music with field recordings of people in Ghana, Switzerland and the North Pole. A piece that was similarly focused on distant places of which we know little was Kieran Brunt’s The Rising Sea Symphony, which was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 in December 2020. Gabriella Smith’s Anthozoa alerts us to the perils facing marine life, with percussion sounds that the programme note told me were accurate portrayals of the sounds of shrimps popping and parrotfish nibbling on coral reefs. There’s a small but increasing stream of pieces about the environment, one of which crossed my path just a couple of weeks ago. In July of the same year, 200 bands joined Music Declares Emergency, a clarion call for humanity to address the climate “emergency”.Ĭlassical music is not far behind in showing a desire to save humanity from sleepwalking into disaster. Two years ago, the band The 1975 featured a song that included a recording of a speech by Greta Thunberg, then 16 years old. It’s a trend that showed itself first in pop music, where artists now vie to display their environmental credentials. Musicians and composers have never been more keen to involve themselves in the burning issues of the day, and there’s none more burning – literally – than climate change.