Orchestrating Change: A Concert for Climate Action

Join us for a moving and uplifting concert that explores climate change - and what we can do about it - through music. As health professionals and community members, we've grown increasingly worried about the ways that climate change is harming our health, through intensifying storms and heat waves, worsening air quality, and more. Our members are responding to this threat with action, and at this event, we'll invite you to join us in this commitment.

On the program: Beethoven's 6th Symphony ("Pastoral"), City Trees by Michael Markowski, As Glaciers Thaw... by Peter Askim, Earth by Penka Kouneva, and the orchestral premiere of The Automatic Earth by Steven Bryant, commissioned for this performance by the DMO and other community partners.

The Durham Medical Orchestra, through its affiliation with the Vice Provost for the Arts at Duke, connects volunteer musicians from the health professions and the community to promote wellness, provide cultural enrichment, and deliver the benefits of music to all through engaging performances and collaborative partnerships.

The performance is free and open to all. Donations will be gratefully accepted for Notes of Hope, which supports music education programs in western North Carolina as they rebuild and recover after Hurricane Helene.