Melville and the Great White Whale

Melville and the Great White Whale

Melville and the Great White Whale

Aurea sets its gaze on the life and times of Herman Melville and his seminal work, Moby-Dick.  Fusing passages from the novel; Melville’s letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne, the novel’s dedicatee; string quartets of Beethoven and Webern, sea shanties and evocative harmonica improvisations of Chris Turner, Aurea highlights the philosophical themes inherent in this great American novel.

 

Matthew Vera and Sarah Whitney, violins
Consuelo Sherba, viola
Emmanuel Feldman, cello
Chris Turner, harmonica and spoken word
Nigel Gore, spoken word