Music Tasting 41

I came across an article this morning about a song.

Yo-Yo Ma, Quinn Christopherson, and Pattie Gonia want you to remember Exit Glacier.

I pulled the photo from Wikipedia, which was taken in 2004.  "And now it's nothing," says Gonia.  "Now it's the rocks underneath."

Christopherson is an Indigenous Alaskan of Iñupiaq and Ahtna descent.

"We're not going to give up on nature.  We're not going to give up on each other."

From NPR: "Ma's cello in the song even evokes the weeping glacier."

Nate Sloan, University of Southern California musicologist: "He's playing these ethereal harmonies which are beautiful and also a little haunting.  And that tension to me captures something about the subject of this song, which is preserving this beautiful planet we live on while acknowledging how delicate and fragile it is and how quickly it's being threatened."

NPR