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Alicia Kennedy

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Acclaimed Pianist Performs Live As An Arctic Shelf Collapses In Front Of Him

“I’m crying, the most touching piano performance I've ever seen so far.”

What will draw world leaders’ attention to the dire effects of climate change? If not the plight of the polar bear, perhaps a beautiful, mournful piano composition played on a floating platform off the coast of Norway? This video showing Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi playing his “Elegy for the Arctic” has been making the rounds, with thousands like actor and environmentalist Adrian Grenier sharing it on on Twitter to say, “Let's change the world, starting at the top.”

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