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.  With Nigel Gore  Spoken Word, Chris Turner  Harmonica, Megumi Stohs Lewis   Violin,  Andrew Eng   Violin Consuelo Sherba   Viola,   Megan Koch   Cello