Composers Datebook for April 22, 2019 - Husa's "Apotheosis Of This Earth"

Earth Day was started on today’s date in 1970. Karel Husa composed a work titled ‘Apotheosis of This Earth’ the same year in order to bring awareness to the destruction of the Earth and encourage action.
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