A climate scientist called Josh Willis, principal investigator of the Oceans Melting Greenland mission in 2021, said: ‘When the ocean speaks, the Greenland ice sheet listens’. “Kate found some words that are so descriptive and telling. “So I said what I would like is to focus on the loss of ice and how this might impact us. “I feel perhaps music and words are a way to pierce people’s thinking on how things are and might become as we may not have ice in the future with the grim rate that global warming is going at. Cecilia says: “Every day there’s something in the news about the Greenland ice sheet melting and I just felt it might be interesting to delve a bit further in a musical context. “London Bridge itself was probably partly responsible for creating the ice because it had about 20 different arches and it stopped the flow of the river.”įor the second movement, The Ice is Listening, the women discussed the melting of ice in the Arctic Circle. “It’s a delightful piece of writing and it is full of things that you could only find in the 17th century like ‘smoaking’ spelt with an ‘a’ and ‘boyling’ with a ‘y’, so you feel that you are in another world. “She very cleverly found a contemporary description in a 17th century manuscript in the library at Magdalen College, Oxford, which she used as a starting point. She is so interesting with fresh perspectives on everything and I knew she would be ideal for this. “I spoke to Kate as we had worked together previously.

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