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Moby Dick

Bonus Feature: Rinde Eckert

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Composer Rinde Eckert’s opera And God Created Great Whales is a meditation on creativity, memory, madness, and Moby-Dick. Produced by Jeff Lunden. Audio coming soon.

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The Original Improvisor

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Special Guest: Edward Herrmann

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Moby-Dude

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The Pequod vs. The Enterprise

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In her modern opera, Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, Laurie Anderson compares two great sagas about America — Moby-Dick and Star Trek.

Call Me Ishmael

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The composer and performer Laurie Anderson was so taken with Moby-Dick, she composed a strange, cool, modern opera called Songs and Stories from Moby-Dick. Anderson tells us how Melville hooked her in the first few pages.Thanks to KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic.

The Grand Armada

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Professor Elizabeth Schultz discusses her favorite passage from Moby-Dick, from the chapter titled “The Grand Armada,” where Ishmael and his companions are dragged into the center of a huge pod of whales, and find peace in the midst of the bloody terror of whale-hunting: “And thus, though surrounded by circle upon circle of consternations and […]

Elizabeth Schultz

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University of Kansas Professor Elizabeth Schultz is passionate about Moby-Dick. According to Schultz, Melville would have appreciated David Ives’s short play Moby-Dude — Melville was something of a prankster himself.

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Political Resonance

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In the dark fall of 2001, images from Moby-Dick surfaced in the press, as a strange literary footnote to the most shocking event of the last half century. Producer Trey Kay speaks with Professors Andrew Delbanco and Samuel Otter about a metaphor that is undeniably powerful and impossible to capture.

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