Hear what Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ would sound like in a post-climate-change world
The weather-inspired classical music piece has been upgraded to reflect how the climate will be in the future, with everything from violent storms to wildfires to complete silence when rising sea levels drown cities.
Vivaldi’s classic series of concertos, The Four Seasons, is a musical representation of the stable climate that humans have existed in for the last 10,000 years, from predictable rainstorms in the spring to successful harvests in the fall. A new series of compositions tweaks the concertos—originally written in 1723—for the evolving new normal of climate change.