Yolanda Kondonassis - Five Minutes for Earth (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Five Minutes for Earth is a project that both celebrates our planet and illuminates our challenge to preserve it. In 2020, I asked each of the composers featured in this collection if they would consider contributing a work for solo harp of approximately five minutes in length that expresses a powerful experience inspired by Earth in one of its many conditions or atmospheres. I was overwhelmed by the generosity of their immediate responses and set about assembling this labor-of-love project. The endeavor quickly expanded to include a live, multi-media concert, a unique video for each track, a separate published collection of Earth-inspired solos for younger harpists, and most importantly, the opportunity for harpists all over the world to perform these innovative, Earth-inspired works for solo harp by some of today’s most lauded composers; in doing so, every verified performance of any of the works from the FIVE MINUTES for Earth collection, anywhere in the world, will result in a monetary contribution to a recognized earth conservation organization, sponsored by my non-profit organization, Earth at Heart. FIVE MINUTES for Earth is also a metaphor for the urgent and compressed timeframe that remains for our global community to embrace and implement solutions to our fast-growing environmental crisis.

Tracklist:
1. Kohola Sings (Humpback Whales) (05:15)
2. Hear the Dust Blow (06:56)
3. On Hearing Nightbirds at Dusk (04:03)
4. Dark Mountains (03:01)
5. Milonga para mi tierra (05:21)
6. Inconvenient Wounds (06:49)
7. Memory of Trees (03:20)
8. As Earth Dreams (06:46)
9. Melting Point (01:50)
10. The Demise of the Shepard Glacier (04:54)
11. Time Lapse (03:17)
12. Green (08:19)
13. Earthview (05:54)
14. Meditation at Perkiomen Creek (05:52)
15. Fault Line (07:48)


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