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Voices: whales
Roger Wayne: whale-song
recording
Paul Halley: organ
Paul Winter: saxophone
Leonard Nimoy: narrations
Leonard Nimoy reads the
spoken text introducing the parts ranging from "Whales Weep Not!" to Elizabeth
Kemf's "Dawnwatch". Leonard approached Roger Payne (an expert in recording
of whale-songs) to do the sound effects.
Organist Paul Halley and Paul Winter (soprano saxophone), who created the music,
are friends and colleagues for a long time. The words of poetry and prose were
chosen from a broad range of whale-related literature.
"They say the sea is cold,
but it contains the hottest blood of all. And the wildest. The most urgent. All
the Whales in the wider deeps - hot are they as they urge on and on and dive
beneath the icebergs. .... There they blow, There they blow... hot...
wild..."
1. Whales Weep Not! (Overture)
2. Dawnwatch
3. George And Gracie
4. Turning
5. Concerto For Whale And Organ
6. Humphrey's Blues
7. Queequeg And I/The Water Is Wide
8. Ocean Dream
9. The Voyage Home (Finale)
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