EUREKA PROGRAMRising
Tides
Telling the story of the changing climate through music.
PARTNERSHIP
UMass Boston School for the Environment
FOCUS
Local climate impacts, New England
Program Overview
Eureka Ensemble is leading a series of performances and programs that spark dialogue and raise awareness around the local impacts of the changing climate in New England.
We believe the best way to address this issue is to bring together leaders from academic, business, and creative communities to inspire active dialogue focused on local, rather than global, impacts of climate change. Together, as individuals and communities, we can act to make change for the better.
With support fromNational Endowment for the Arts
Cabot Family Charitable Trust
Boston Cultural Council
Brookline Bank
Phase Two · Spring 2022Three Initiatives
INITIATIVE ONEYouth Seminars
40+ youth · 3 neighborhoods
Three student groups in Chinatown, Cambridge, and Chelsea learn the basics of climate change from SFE scientist Sarah Howdy, supported by musical examples from Eureka musicians — then write an original song with the Eureka team. Science reporter Ari Daniel is producing a short documentary on the project.
PartnersBoston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (Red Oak), St. James’s Episcopal Church, Desea Soñar with La Colaborativa
Initiative TwoVirtual Concert
Weekend of June 3, 2022
Nature-related classical music alongside youth experiences from the seminars, in a performance styled after Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts — recorded among the collections of the Pucker Gallery in Back Bay, with videography by Grammy Award-winning technical director Brandon Johnson.
PROGRAMMichi Wiancko · Gustav Mahler · G. F. Handel
Guest: Boston Children’s Chorus
Initiative ThreeBoston Children’s Chorus
May 22, 2022
Eureka joins the BCC for its year-end concert, Future Generations: Lift Every Voice. Inspired by social and climate youth leaders, the singers recognize their own power to effect change.
World PremieresSuad Bushnaq
Jorge Sosa
Phase One · Spring 2021
Rising Tides Fellows
Four young composers and songwriters turned what they learned from environmental experts into original songs about their own communities.
The Fellows learned from local environmental experts and activists at the UMass Boston School for the Environment. Their songs were performed in collaboration with Eureka Ensemble in a virtual program for schools and the public — recorded at the Boston Children's Chorus Studios in April 2021 by Eureka Technical Director Brandon Johnson and BCC Operations Assistant Klo Garoute, and livestreamed on April 30, 2021.
