Wildfire Hits a Crescendo in Gabriela Lena Frank's 'Contested Eden' (KQED)

By Adesh Thapliyal

Composer Gabriela Lena Frank thinks of the climate crisis in terms of butterflies and worms.

“Growing up in Berkeley, I remember putting my hands in the dirt in the garden that we had and insects would come out,” Frank says in a Zoom call. “That's not just my imagination. Science says 60 percent of our insect life, and our bird population, is down. I remember going back and looking at old photo albums, my mom taking photos of me in the garden, and there were butterflies all around and it was just—it was different.”

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