WORLD – On the eve of the most important OSPAR meeting (The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic), Ludovico Einaudi, the Italian musician and composer famous worldwide, played his unreleased “Elegy for The Arctic” off the Wahlenbergbreen glacier, on the Svalbard Islands (Norway) to raise awareness and let his voice be heard in defense of the Arctic.
(codice da incorporare) He reached the glacier by travelling on the Greenpeace boat “Arctic Sunrise” to join the 8 millions of people who signed a petition to ask the international community to subscribe an agreement, aimed at the protection of the Arctic from climate changes and exploitation.
The decision that could drastically change the Artic’s fate is to be taken one of these days: the idea is that of establishing a 226,000 square kilometer protected area in the Arctic Ocean, which is currently the least protected worldwide. This area would be as big as the United Kingdom.
This project is fully supported by the panel of scientists at the OSPAR, who stressed the immense ecological value of this region and the huge thawing it is facing due to the climate change.
On the other hand, the governments of Denmark, Norway and Iceland are standing in the way of the approval process and are putting the approval itself in danger.
The video of Einaudi playing his unreleased song in the middle of the Arctic Ocean is now going viral on social networks and it is bringing up, once again, the tremendous issue not only the Arctic, but the whole world, has to face: climate change.
Hoping that his help in this campaign will bring more awareness about this problem, we can also give our contribution to this cause by signing this petition:
https://www.savethearctic.org/it/voices/?utm_source=planet&utm_medium=news&utm_campaign=Einau di_20062016_it.
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The new ensemble Tango Quintet led by the musician and composer Romano Viazzani made its debut with selections from Piazzolla’s Serie del Ángel.
The ceremony will start roughly around 10am on House Guards Parade. Just some numbers: there will be about 1,400 officers and soldiers, 200 horses, more than 400 musicians, at least 113 word of command given by the Officer in charge of the parade. The ceremony starts from Buckingham Palace, along The Mall and to House Guards Parade, Whitehall and back again. Her Majesty the Queen will inspect her troops and greet her subjects along with the other members of the Royal family.
To gain access to the Festival, you have to buy a Gelato Card, available online or on site (the online cost for London is 22€), which will allow you to be part of daily activities, and to taste the 8 ice cream flavours competing for the title, plus the other 6 flavours hors concours, offered by sponsors.
Claudia Kane’s vivid gothic electronica will fill the courtyard ahead of Caravan Palace’s pioneering electro-swing. Expect an intensely personal sonic cocktail that blends hard-hitting lyrical material influenced by Massive Attack, Bjork and Portishead.