Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet

Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 40

Episode 40 is a dive into the extraordinary world of Climate Choirs, as Warren interviews Chris Hutchings of the UK-based clearinghouse Choirs For Climate. Hear and watch choral singing on environmental themes, including many selections of Hutchings' own music as well as performance excerpts from the 1000-singer mega-concert presented in Finland in 2024 by Choirs For Ecocide Law. For more information check these links:https://choirsforclimate.com/https://www.stopecocide.earth/choirs https://craftycarrot.co.uk/another-world/ "Another World" Jane Lewis, composer text by Arundhati Roy Choirs For Climate Concert, March 5, 2025, Edinburgh, Scotland "Let Them Not Say" Chris Hutchings, composer Jane Hirshfield, text The Piedmont Singers Helena von Rueden - director April 22, 2021 "Warming Warning" Chris Hutchings, composer Milan Jazz School Choir, Giorgio Ubaldi, Director August 15, 2024, Milan, Italy "I Was Listening To A Pogrom" Michael Rosen, text, Chris Hutchings, composer Loré Lixenberg — Voice, Rolf Hind — Piano “Occupy The Pianos" Concert, October 18, 2020, St John’s Smith Square, London "When The Snow Came" Chris Hutchings — Composer Kantos Chamber Choir Ellie Slorach — Director December 18, 2021 "Why We Sing" Chris Hutchings, composer Choirs For Climate Concert, March 5, 2025, Edinburgh, Scotland "The Turmut-Hoer's Song" Sung by Fred Perrier & Villagers West Lavington, Wiltshire, 1951 From Lomax & Kennedy: "World Library of Folk & Primitive Music" Columbia SL 206 "Melisommelos, or the Bees Madrigal" Rev. Charles Butler (1623) Choir of Little St. Mary's Simon Jackson, Director "Our House Is On Fire" Commoners Choir March 29, 2023 "The Rules" Chris Hutchings - music and lyrics Performed by Grex Musicus, Kirsi Tunkkari - conductor (Finland) Choirs for Ecocide Law Mega-concert, Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, Finland, April 27th, 2024 "Creation" Kevin Fox - music, Astrid Vang Pedersen - text Performed by Flok (Helsinki, Finland) Choirs for Ecocide Law Mega-concert, Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, Finland, April 27th, 2024 "We Used to Know" Astrid Vang Pedersen- music and lyrics Performed by Philomela, Jennifer Moir - conductor (Finland) Choirs for Ecocide Law Mega-concert, Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, Finland, April 27th, 2024 "I Wanna See You Free" Simon Tandberg Christensen - words & music Performed by Vaskivuoren Lukion Kamarikuoro, Anni-Kaisa Haukka - conductor  (Finland) Choirs for Ecocide Law Mega-concert, Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, Finland, April 27th, 2024 "Ask Not" Peder Karlsson - music and text Performed by Tampereen Ihankaikkinen Kuninkaallinen Tuomiokuoro, Petra Poutanen, conductor (Finland) Choirs for Ecocide Law Mega-concert, Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, Finland, April 27th, 2024 "Send Lazarus" Chris Hutchings, composer Choirs For Climate Concert, March 5, 2025, Edinburgh, Scotland "Monster" Chris Hutchings, composer March 28, 2025, Oxford University Museum of Natural History City of Oxford Choir, Duncan Aspden, director "Hope" — Merzi Rajala - music, Emily Dickenson - text Performed by Vaskivuoren Lukion Kamarikuoro, Anni-Kaisa Haukka - conductor  (Finland) Choirs for Ecocide Law Mega-concert, Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, Finland, April 27th, 2024 Every attempt has been made to secure permission from copyright holders of audio and video content used in this program. The use of copyrighted material is for non-commercial, educational purposes, and is intended to provide benefit to the public. Copyrighted material used is supplementary and illustrative, and does not detract from the commercial value of the original content. "Cool Tunes For A Hot Planet" uses only the minimum amount of copyrighted material to fulfill its educational purpose. We believe our use constitutes "Fair Use" of this material as provided for in the US Copyright Act of 1976, Sections 106A-117.If you feel any content in this episode violates your copyright, please contact us immediately and we will address your concern appropriately.

Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 39

Episode 39 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet is about honoring the rebirth of springtime, the workers who bring life to the community, and the elders who have held strong to the harmony of the planet despite centuries of opposition and pollution. Building on the mandate of April’s Earth Day, now is the time to put those good ideas into action, and move forward together to bring peace and justice to an ailing world.

Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 38

Episode 38 does a deep dive into the back-story of American environmentalism, tracing the roots of the movement back two centuries to the emergence of industrialization in the early 1800s.  Warren Senders interviews historian Chad Montrie (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) about his work linking labor and environmental causes, with a huge list of song selections dating back to 1837. Music & Video "Woodman, Spare That Tree!" Daniel P. Smith, Jr — Voice & Guitar Lyrics by George Pope Morris Music by Henry Russell (youtube.com/@danielpsmithjr [http://youtube.com/@danielpsmithjr]) Chad Montrie interview recorded March 13, 2026 "D.D.T. Blues" George Brunis — Trombone & Voice Commodore CB-13 "Pay Day At Coal Creek" Pete Steele — Banjo & Voice Library Of Congress Archive of American Folk Song AAFS 68 "The Factory Girls' Come-All-Ye" Diane Taraz — voice from "A Silver Dagger - Exploring Women's History Through Folk Songs" (www.dianetaraz.com [http://www.dianetaraz.com/]) "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming" Composed by Stephen Foster Losey's Instrumental Quartet Edison 80679-L "Friends, think not..." Anonymous, from "The Voice Of Industry" October 23, 1946 Read by Sharada Sundaram-Senders "Po' Black Sheep" Nathan Frazier — Banjo & Voice Frank Patterson — Fiddle from "Altamont: Black Stringband Music from the Library of Congress" (Rounder 0238) "Tim Moore's Farm" Lightnin' Hopkins — Guitar & Voice Gold Star Records 640-A "Bull Frog Blues"  (1928) William Harris Gennett 6661 "Barndomshemmet (My Childhood Home)" Henry Corsell — Voice Wallin Records WR 109 (1923) "Jolietcke Deklice (Joliet Girls) Polka" Daichman Brata in Perush Dance Orchestra RCA Victor - V-23004-A "Chicago Buzz" Junie Cobb & Johnny Dodds Century 3006/Paramount 12382 "Slievenamon/Dublin Hornpipe" Johnny McGreevy — Fiddle Eleanor Kane — Piano Decca 12062 "The Land of The Noonday Night" Music by Eleanor Smith Lyrics by Ernst Howard Crosby Jocelyn Zelasko — Voice Amanda Sabelhaus — Piano from "Eleanor Smith's Hull House Songs: The Music of Protest and Hope in Jane Addams' Chicago" (Haymarket, 2020) (hullhousesongs.org [http://hullhousesongs.org/]) "Happy Days are Here Again" The All-Star Troubadours Van Dyke 81829 Franklin Delano Roosevelt First Inaugural Speech March 4, 1933 Found Footage of California CCC Camp (1935) Courtesy YouTube user MutantKitty "Wood Tick" William Jamerson — Guitar & Voice Hedberg Public Library, Janesville, WI, September 22, 2013 (http://www.billjamerson.com/ [http://www.billjamerson.com/]) "Cadillac Assembly Line" Lurrie Bell — Guitar & Voice JSP Records CD 2134 "We've Gotta Fight Pollution Now" Joe Lisi — Guitar & Voice from "It's The UAW All The Way" LEM Productions ESS-1185 "El Picket Sign" El Teatro Campesino from "Rolas de Aztlan: Songs of the Chicano Movement" Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40616 "Silent Spring" Lena Horne — Voice Music by Harold Arlen Lyrics by Yip Harburg Stateside Records SS 246 "Silent Spring" Carmen McRae — Voice Atlantic 45-2807 "Silent Spring" Gary Burton Ensemble Carla Bley — Composer from "A Genuine Tong Funeral" RCA Victor LSP-3988 "Rent Strike Blues" Jimmy Collier — Guitar & Voice from "We Won't Move: Songs of the Tenants' Movement" Folkways Records FS 5287 "Ecology Man" Danny Boyd and the Sounds of Young Los Angeles Soyla 1372, Courtesty SoulMarcosa "Smog Gets In Your Eyes" Allan Sherman — Voice The Ed Sullivan Show, October 16, 1966 "Mother Earth" Memphis Slim & The Houserockers Premium PR-867 Every attempt has been made to secure permission from copyright holders of the content used in this program. The use of copyrighted material is for non-commercial, educational purposes, and is intended to provide benefit to the public. Copyrighted material used is supplementary and illustrative, and does not detract from the commercial value of the original content. "Cool Tunes For A Hot Planet" uses only the minimum amount of copyrighted material to fulfill its educational purpose. We believe our use constitutes "Fair Use" of this material as provided for in the US Copyright Act of 1976, Sections 106A-117.

Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 37

Episode 35 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet is about working together, in communities both small and large, to overcome the multiple assaults on humanity we all experience now – the rise of fascism, the chaos of pointless wars, the degradation of the climate, propelled by corporate greed and political denial. It’s a formidable array of foes we face, but if we keep our eyes on the prize and work as a unified resistance, we shall overcome.

Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 36

Episode 36 introduces two skilled and passionate composers, Kris Davis and Sumi Tonooka.  Both women have made artistic homes for themselves in the jazz tradition, and both often venture into other realms and genres with great assurance.  Although they've never met each other, their recent works are complementary, and this episode presents them side by side. Composer and pianist Kris Davis encountered a new word, "solastalgia," coined by philosopher Glenn Albrecht.  It means "the homesickness you have when you are still at home, and your home environment is changing in distressing ways," and it inspired the "Solastalgia Suite," featuring a virtuoso performance by Poland's Lutoslawski Quartet, and released earlier this year on Pyroclastic Records, Davis' own record label. Warren Senders interviews Davis about the piece and its complex emotional layers. Sumi Tonooka grew up in Philadelphia, and came up in the city's intensely creative jazz community.  Her recent recording is also a suite, titled "Under The Surface."  With her group, Alchemy Sound Project, she created a set of pieces built around the idea that trees and arboreal ecosystems communicate with one another, sharing nourishment, support, and protection.  She talks with Warren about her work in music and activism.Music and Video Kris Davis interview February 5, 2026 "The Known End" from the Solastalgia Suite (Pyroclastic PR-44) "Ghost Reefs" from the Solastalgia Suite (Pyroclastic PR-44) "Softly, As You Wake" from "Run The Gauntlet" Kris Davis — prepared piano, Robert Hurst — bass, Johnathan Blake — drums "Pressure and Yield" from the Solastalgia Suite Dizzy's, New York June 13, 2024 "Interlude" from the Solastalgia Suite Dizzy's, New York June 13, 2024 "An Invitation to Disappear" from the Solastalgia Suite (Pyroclastic PR-44) "Degrees of Separation" from the Solastalgia Suite Dizzy's, New York June 13, 2024 "Towards No Earthly Pole" from the Solastalgia Suite (Pyroclastic PR-44) Sumi Tonooka Interview January 29, 2026 "Under The Surface" Alchemy Sound Project Sumi Tonooka - piano; Erica Lindsay - tenor saxophone; Samantha Boshnack - trumpet; Michael Ventoso - trombone; Gregg August - bass; Salim Washington - multi reeds, bass clarinet, flute and tenor saxophone; Johnathan Blake -drums (ARC-6770) "Saveur" From "Under The Surface" Alchemy Sound Project, Exuberance, Philadelphia, December 17, 2025 "For Stanley" From "Under The Surface" Alchemy Sound Project (ARC-6770) "Only The Midnight Sky and Silent Stars" San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra Conductor: Edwin Outwater, February 2023 "Interval Haiku" From "Under The Surface" Alchemy Sound Project, Exuberance, Philadelphia, December 17, 2025 "Mother Tongue" From "Under The Surface" Alchemy Sound Project (ARC-6770) "Heavy-Footed" from "Run The Gauntlet" Kris Davis — piano, Robert Hurst — bass, Johnathan Blake — drums Every attempt has been made to secure permission from copyright holders of audio and video content used in this program.  The use of copyrighted material is for non-commercial, educational purposes, and is intended to provide benefit to the public.  Copyrighted material used is supplementary and illustrative, and does not detract from the commercial value of the original content.  "Cool Tunes For A Hot Planet" uses only the minimum amount of copyrighted material to fulfill its educational purpose.  We believe our use constitutes "Fair Use" of this material as provided for in the US Copyright Act of 1976, Sections 106A-117. If you feel any content in this episode violates your copyright, please contact us immediately and we will address your concern appropriately.