UN Chamber Music Society Concert for World Water Day

On 22 March 2023, the UN Chamber Music Society will present a concert for World Water Day. Every Drop Counts. 40 per cent shortfall in freshwater resources by 2030 coupled with a burgeoning world population—according to current estimates—has the world careening towards a global water crisis. Recognizing the growing challenge, the UN General Assembly launched the Water Action Decade on 22 March 2018, to mobilize action that will help transform how we manage water. Water is critical for sustainable development. The issues of the eradication of poverty and hunger, the lack of access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, drought and climate change – are all related to water. On this occasion, the UN Chamber Music Society will premiere Archimedes’s Dreams, composed by American composer Evan Fein. Water is essential to life; its creative forces have shaped our cities, sculpted our landscapes, and washed away disease. It is engaged in an eternal cycle; the water we drink today may once have nourished the fields of Mesopotamia, or have been the vapor in a cloud painted by Monet. The horizons of today’s seas are the same ones Leif Erikson and Magellan sought to peer beyond. They are reminders of a time when oceans were not barriers, but rather the highways connecting the world’s peoples to one another. The work’s title is an ode to the great ancient scientist, whose inventions continue to shape our relationship with water and remind us to approach this resource with wonder and humility.

See performance below: