The livestream of #ChoirsForEcocideLaw is still online if you have time to watch! 2 hours long - first hour is music, 2nd hour is mostly panel discussion (mixture of Finnish and English) with one final song at the end. https://www.youtube.com/live/rjze3hN9mSc?si=5Kkj3OLQf8cHMXX7
Choirs for Ecocide Law - Let’s change the rules! Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, 27.4 2024

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RT by @VilleNiinisto: #choirsforecocidelaw Luonnontuhonta on kiellettävä lailla lauloi 1000 kuorolaulajaa 15 kappaleen voimin @Musiikkitalo Paneelissa @PanuHalme @VilleNiinisto @aarninappu @KaarloHilden ja @JojomehtaK Kiitos @kauniski ja Merzi Rajala💥 Voimaannuttavaa☀️

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I'm in Helsinki and about to go to a rehearsal of 1000 singers. And they're doing my piece. Crikey. Anyone who's at Musiikkitalo for #ChoirsForEcocideLaw, come say hi!
Ideally it should be performed as part of an entire programme for Choirs for Ecocide Law, which is available here: https://www.stopecocide.earth/choirs All the songs there are available for unison voices (or solo singer), flexible 2-part choir, or SATB, and accompaniment can be piano alone or an entire band (chord symbols included). It's licensed under #CreativeCommons, contributions to climate causes appreciated. #ChoirsForEcocideLaw #ChoirsForClimate #Ecocide
Choirs for Ecocide Law — Stop Ecocide International

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Today's bit of self-promotion: "The Rules" for flexible 2-part choir and piano! This is part of #ChoirsForEcocideLaw (the concert I'm going to see in a few weeks in Finland with 1000 people singing it, yikes) and was premiered at our Creative Scotland funded #ChoirsForClimate concert in March 2023. Just found a performance of the Choirs For Ecocide Law full programme on YouTube which I didn't know about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTrkvTwu0Ps&t=605s - a big thank you to the Koblenz University Choir in Germany!
Choirs for Ecocide Laws, Universitätschor Koblenz, Christian Jeub

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Next on the list is "The Rules" https://choirsforclimate.com/2022/04/15/the-rules/ - an angry rant against existing laws which not only protect companies that harm the environment, but sometimes even penalise them if they try to reduce damage. We need to change these rules and introduce #EcocideLaw. That's why I wrote this piece for #ChoirsForEcocideLaw http://stopecocide.earth/choirs . It's a whole concert's worth of music that you can download and perform to campaign for an ecocide law. If you direct a choir, check it out!
The Rules – Choirs for Climate

Here's "The Rules", which will be in both of the above, in concert from our Edinburgh performance last month (this was the world premiere): https://youtu.be/bhuk9j8pvrs Full lyrics are in the video description. It's available under a Creative Commons license for climate campaigning. #NewMusic #ChoralMusic #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ChoirsForClimate #ChoirsForEcocideLaw #EcocideLaw #Ecocide
The Rules - Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate

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"Hope", with music by Merzi Rajala, is a soulful, catchy setting of Emily Dickinson's famous poem, which will leave you humming it every time you read it from now on! Written as part of the #ChoirsForEcocideLaw project, this piece shows the value and indestructibility of hope in the time of climate crisis. https://youtu.be/gaB9ny4dP10
#choir #choral #ChoralMusic #NewMusic #Composer #ChoirsForClimate
Hope #ChoirsForClimate

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I loved all the pieces we sang at the #ChoirsForClimate concert, but this one is the most important to me personally. https://youtu.be/bhuk9j8pvrs Part of the #ChoirsForEcocideLaw project "The Rules" is a dark and intense piece - maybe the angriest I've ever written.
"All the rules say you can keep on taking water till the well runs dry
All the rules say there’s a fine but you can pay it when your stocks get high..." #NewMusic #Choir #Choral #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
The Rules - Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate

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