As glaciers literally crumble around him, a pianist plays an elegy for the Arctic

Ludovico Einaudi, a his grand piano
playing an "Elegy for the Arctic".

Back in June, as part of an advocacy campaign aimed at protecting the Arctic Ocean from oil and gas extraction, Greenpeace sent its ship Arctic Sunrise northward with some unusual cargo.

The ship carried renowned pianist Ludovico Einaudi, a grand piano, and a floating wooden platform made up to look like a glacier.

They put the platform in the water next to the Wahlenbergbreen glacier in Svalbard, Norway. They put the piano on the platform. And there, Einaudi played a short original composition: “Elegy for the Arctic.”

Watch/listen to the Vox story - “As glaciers literally crumble around him, a pianist plays an elegy for the Arctic.”