Scherpdenkers: Joyeeta Gupta and Lonneke van Straalen & co - Climate Justice in Four Seasons
Sharp thinkers: stories and music that make you think. This evening in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with climate scientist Joyeeta Gupta, violinist Lonneke van Straalen and ensemble The DutchBrewhouse. What do the seasons sound like in the twenty-first century? English will be spoken during this concert.
Scherpdenkers: Joyeeta Gupta and Lonneke van Straalen & co - Climate Justice in Four Seasons
Climate Justice at Four Seasons
Vivaldi wrote a hit 300 years ago. With The Four Seasons, the seasons have been audible in concert halls for centuries. But the world is subject to major change. Summer can now feel like autumn. We are struggling with severe flooding. Snow and an Eleven Cities Tour are no longer self-evident in the winter. How do those seasons sound in the twenty-first century? Violinist Lonneke van Straalen asked Trevor Grahl and Composer of the Fatherland Anne Maartje Lemereis to capture the current climate conditions in music. Both composers are inspired by the ideas of climate scientist Joyeeta Gupta, winner of the prestigious Spinoza Prize, the Dutch version of the Nobel Prize. How can we think in possibilities and not get bogged down in doom scenarios?
Joyeeta Gupta
Climate scientist Joyeeta Gupta is a professor at the University of Amsterdam and at the IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education. For more than three decades, she has been working on climate issues and climate justice in particular. Her work has been widely praised, including the Spinoza Prize and she was co-author of the climate report that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. In other words: a Nobel Prize winner in Sharp Thinkers! Gupta's ideas and music meet during this concert in which, based on Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and two new Four Seasons, a picture of the relationship between man and nature is outlined.
Scherpdenkers: Joyeeta Gupta and Lonneke van Straalen & co - Climate Justice in Four Seasons
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