Melville and the Great White Whale

Pawtucket Arts Fest & Blackstone River Valley National Historic Park present

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.

FEATURING

Nigel Gore – Spoken Word
Chris Turner – Harmonica & Spoken Word

Matthew Vera – Violin
Sarah Whitney – Violin
Consuelo Sherba – Viola
Emmanuel Feldman – Cello