In 2016, Italian pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi added his musical voice to the global climate change discussion, performing Elegy for the Arctic beside crumbling Wahlenbergbreen glacier in Svalbard, Norway.Īmong the most striking phenomena of the Arctic is the aurora borealis or northern lights, brilliant natural light displays that seem to swim through the polar night sky. It is in the Arctic, particularly through observations of the Greenland ice sheet, that climate change is being observed at its quickest.
Yet more than 2 million people and a stunning array of wildlife call the region home, adapting their ways of living to the extremes of temperature, daylight and weather. state of Alaska, the region evokes images of endless ice and snow. Please check back to this page to hear our singers’ heartfelt version of this touching piece, which is coming soon.Journey north of the Arctic Circle, which circles the globe at a latitude of 66☃0' N, to arrive in a land of summer midnight sun and winter polar nights.Įncompassing parts of Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Canada and the U.S. The SING THE NORTH video for our Northern Lights project is currently in production. Ola Gjeilo’s Northern Lights captures the powerful love – and also the terror – that the mysterious cosmic displays of the Aurora borealis can strike in the heart of those who are lucky enough to witness it: Measuring a massive 482,443 square kilometres, and with a population of only 43,000 people, it is a landscape of open spaces, clear rivers, towering mountains, and explansive and expressive skies. At its Northern end the Yukon reaches to the shores of the icy Beaufort sea. To prepare ourselves for this concert, the choir travelled on the STN Virtual Choir Tour Bus to Canada’s vast Yukon Territory, which, at its southern end, touches the 60th parallel of latitude. Set to the Latin Pulchra es amica mea text from Song of Solomon, Northern Lights was inspired by Ola Gjeilo’s experience of the Aurora borealis in his native Norway. SING THE NORTH travelled virtually to the Yukon Territory to sing Northern Lights by Ola Gjeilo – a stunning 6-part SATB visionary hymn to the most mysterious phenomenon of the night.
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