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Music From This Week's Show

SEGMENT A

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P. Sainton, "There She Blows" from Moby-Dick: Classic Film Music (Marco Polo)

Call Me Ishmael/Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson, "One White Whale" from Life on a String (Nonesuch)

The Original Improvisor/Stanley Crouch
James P. Johnson, "Yamekraw -- A Negro Rhapsody" album and performer unknown

Moby-Dude
The Ventures, "Penetration" from Play the Greatest Surfin' Hits of All-time (Varese Sarabande)

Tony Kushner
Laurie Anderson, "One White Whale" from Life on a String (Nonesuch)

End of Segment A
P. Sainton, "Ahab's Introduction" from Moby-Dick: Classic Film Music (Marco Polo)

BREAK 1

Benjamin Britten, English Symph. Orch. "Sunday Morning" from Britten's Four Sea Interludes (Nimbus Records)

SEGMENT B

Political Resonance
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" performed by the Old Bethpage Brass Band from the PBS documentary The Civil War (Nonesuch)

The Pequod vs The Enterprise/Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson, "Pieces and Parts" from Life on a String (Nonesuch)

Laurie Anderson, KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic live performance from "Songs and Stories from Moby Dick"

Led Zeppelin, "Moby-Dick" from Led Zeppelin II (Atlantic)

End of Segment B
P. Sainton, "Search Continues" from Moby-Dick: Classic Film Music (Marco Polo)

BREAK 2

P. Sainton, "Waiting" from Moby-Dick: Classic Film Music (Marco Polo)

SEGMENT C

He Rises/Ray Bradbury
P. Sainton, "On the Lookout" from Moby-Dick: Classic Film Music (Marco Polo)

The Grand Armada
Benjamin Britten, English Symph. Orch. "Moonlight" from Britten's Four Sea Interludes (Nimbus Records)




"It's a book in which everything that is conceivable exists in one form or another. So full of incredible delight."

--Tony Kushner on Moby-Dick

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