Rocky Mountain EMMY Nod: True Concord & Earth Symphony (Runestad/Boss)

So thankful to have been part of the pro choir with True Concord that was nominated for two Rocky Mountain EMMY awards for audio engineering and the composition itself.

Earth Symphony is a work that thinks about what would happen if no humans were left on Earth due to climate making the planet uninhabitable. Jake and Todd left us and the audience with a compelling vision that I was thrilled to help imagine.

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“Earth Symphony,” the EMMY® award nominated, ground-breaking choral symphony from GRAMMY®-nominated composer Jake Runestad and librettist Todd Boss, is a 5-part dramatic monologue from the voice of a post-anthropocene Mother Earth. The work imagines Earth’s hope for humanity, her discovery of its power, her ruination at its hands, her lament at its loss, and her recovery. By anthropomorphizing Earth herself, drawing on the familiar earth-mother trope, “Earth Symphony” enables entry into our own ecological shame, guilt, responsibility, potential, and redemption, all from a wide-angled, time-telescoped lens, thereby asking our most immediately pressing environmental questions in an entirely new way.

Enjoy the fifth movement, captured at the premiere for Arizona PBS.