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Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi composed “Elegy for the Arctic” for a very special occasion: a performance on a floating platform as the Wahlenbergbreen glacier crumbled behind him. The performance is a stunning reminder of what’s at stake as more and more sea ice melts on Earth’s polar ice caps.
A haunting performance illustrating the fragility of the arctic's sea ice. Greenpeace photo.
Since the late 1970's, the Arctic has lost shocking average of 20,800 square miles of ice per year, according to NASA.
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The baby grand piano was shipped from Germany to Norway, where it then traveled on the Arctic Sunrise, one of Greenpeace’s ships, to the glacier in Svalbard.
“Being here has been a great experience. I could see the purity and fragility of this area with my own eyes and interpret a song I wrote to be played upon the best stage in the world,” Einaudi said in a release from Greenpeace. “It is important that we understand the importance of the Arctic, stop the process of destruction, and protect it.”
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