The Durham Medical Orchestra, which is associated with Duke University, was founded in 2010 by volunteer musicians with the mission to unite health-related professionals, Duke University, and the surrounding community through musical performance and collaboration to foster health, wellness, and the cultural enrichment of its audiences and members.
The orchestra now has more than 100 members, including health-related professionals, medical and graduate students of the life sciences, colleagues, and family members.
Their music features major compositions from the classical literature as well as contemporary and newly commissioned works.
Concerts frequently include collaborations with community organizations, visual artists, health leaders, local schools, churches, and professional musicians.
Orchestrating Change: A Concert for Climate Action
Sunday, December 15, 2024
3 p.m.
Baldwin Auditorium, Duke University’s East Campus
1336 Campus Drive, Durham, NC
Free
Join us for a moving and uplifting concert that explores climate change — and what we can do about it — through music. As health professionals and community members, we’ve grown increasingly worried about the ways that climate change is harming our health, through intensifying storms and heat waves, worsening air quality, and more. Our members are responding to this threat with action, and at this event, we’ll invite you to join us in this commitment.
On the program: Beethoven’s 6th Symphony (“Pastoral”), City Trees by Michael Markowski, As Glaciers Thaw… by Peter Askim, Earth by Penka Kouneva, and the orchestral premiere of The Automatic Earth by Steven Bryant, commissioned for this performance by the DMO and other community partners.
The performance is free and open to all. Donations will be gratefully accepted for Notes of Hope, which supports music education programs in western North Carolina as they rebuild and recover after Hurricane Helene.
Before the performance, we hope you will join us at 2:15 for a panel discussion exploring the intersection of climate change, health, and the transformative power of music. This thought-provoking conversation will feature composers along with climate and healthcare experts to examine how climate change impacts human well-being and how music can inspire resilience and spark collective action toward a sustainable future.
We will also have tables with more information from community partners before and after the performance. Thank you in advance to Citizens Climate Lobby; the Great School Electrification Challenge; Carolina Advocates for Climate, Health, and Equity; and the Duke Office of Climate and Sustainability for sharing their work and opportunities for climate action with our audience and orchestra members.
The Durham Medical Orchestra, through its affiliation with the Vice Provost for the Arts at Duke, connects volunteer musicians from the health professions and the community to promote wellness, provide cultural enrichment, and deliver the benefits of music to all through engaging performances and collaborative partnerships.
Durham Medical Orchestra
Durham Medical Orchestra advises that parking can be a little bit tricky at Baldwin Auditorium, but there is some parking advice on Baldwin Auditorium’s page.
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