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[00:00.44] Antonio Vivaldi’s famous musical work, The Four Seasons, was first performed in the 1700s.

[00:10.05] Many music historians call it a “masterpiece,” the musical composer’s greatest work.

[00:17.75] The composition includes four parts for the four seasons: “Spring,” “Summer,” “Autumn,” and “Winter.”

[00:27.11] Each part recalls the season it is aiming to describe.

[00:32.47] For example, the website Galaxy Music Notes says “Summer” has a “slow start, portraying the weather as too hot for any movement.”↳

[00:45.52] “Autumn” is a “celebration of the harvest.”

[00:50.06] One music director in Spain decided to interpret the 300-year-old work for modern times.

[00:58.63] The composer and producer Hache Costa told the Reuters news agency that Vivaldi’s work would have been “a lot more aggressive and dirty” if it was written today.

[01:21.37] Costa said the weather is so different now that “if today someone were to compose the Four Seasons from a…realistic perspective, it would be…daring.”

[01:32.58] So, he updated Vivaldi’s piece to reflect the real world.

[01:38.72] The work is now being performed in Madrid at the EDP Gran Via concert hall.

[01:46.46] Reuters said he added “prominence and drama” to the summer portion and shortened the other seasons because of global warming.

[01:57.65] The musical group, or orchestra, performs the music in front of a video screen showing the effects of climate change – such as wildfires and dry weather.

[02:11.55] One part shows the clouds involved in a hurricane.

[02:16.10] Costa created the adaptation of The Four Seasons to go along with the recent Global Climate Action Day.

[02:24.35] He said he wants people listening to “feel really bothered…by becoming truly aware of what is happening.”

[02:32.63] He said the sheet music is freely available for anyone to play.

[02:37.70] Ernesto Rodriguez Camino is president of the Spanish Meteorological Society.

[02:45.44] He said the effects of climate change in Spain could be “catastrophic.”

[02:50.50] He said periods of high heat will last longer and bring wildfires and the chance of strong rainfall.

[02:59.31] When asked, Costa, the composer, said he did not think Vivaldi would have a problem with his changes.