Moby-Dude
Studio 360 presents the world premiere of Moby-Dude from David Ives, the master of the short play. Mark Price plays a contemporary teenager who summarizes the great American novel for his English...
View ArticleThe Original Improvisor
Music historian Stanley Crouch includes Moby-Dick in his lectures about jazz history at Juilliard, even though the novel was written over five decades before jazz developed. According to Crouch,...
View ArticleSpecial Guest: Edward Herrmann
Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor Edward Herrmann is our voice of Ishmael. Herrmann boasts an impressive career that spans more than 30 years in theater, film and television.
View ArticleIshmael, Ahab, Moby
This American Icon continues to resonate in our culture more than 150 years after it was written. Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick survived his battle with Captain Ahab only to surface in the works of...
View ArticleSpecial Thanks
Special thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities for their support of Studio 360's American Icons. Special thanks also to Mary Beth Kirchner, Sarah Lilley, Barbara Taylor, Andrew Delbanco...
View ArticleBonus Feature: Rinde Eckert
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.
View ArticleThe Grand Armada
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...
View ArticleHe Rises
The great fantasy and science fiction master Ray Bradbury was still relatively unknown when the director John Huston tapped him to adapt Moby-Dick for the big screen. Bradbury tells Kurt Andersen how...
View ArticleCall Me Ishmael
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...
View ArticleFrank Stella
In 1986, legendary sculptor and painter Frank Stella defied Melville’s instruction not to paint the White Whale, and then spent the next twelve years chasing an artistic obsession that Stella says...
View ArticleThe Pequod vs. The Enterprise
In her modern opera, Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, Laurie Anderson compares two great sagas about America — Moby-Dick and Star Trek.
View ArticlePolitical Resonance
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...
View ArticleTony Kushner
Playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) says that Moby-Dick had the single greatest impact on his own writing.
View ArticleElizabeth Schultz
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...
View ArticleMoby Dick
In this Peabody Award-winning show, Kurt Andersen sets sail in search of Moby-Dick. Herman Melville’s white whale survived his battle with Captain Ahab only to surface in the works of contemporary...
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Music That Speaks to You
Here's a Black Friday deal that the big-box retailers can't beat. Buy the new album from the up-and-coming indie band Ezra Furman and the Harpoons and you'll get a personalized song thrown in, for no...
View ArticleAmerican Icons: Moby-Dick
In this Peabody Award-winning show, Kurt Andersen sets sail in search of the great white whale.Herman Melville's white whale survived his battle with Captain Ahab only to surface in the works of...
View ArticleJake Heggie's Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick, composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer's adaptation of Herman Melville's novel, played to enthusiastic reviews at San Francisco Opera last fall.The story about the sinking of a...
View ArticleInside the Mind that Translated Moby Dick Into Emoji
Fred Benenson just can't help it. He thinks in images. So when he discovered that he could text message using the Japanese pictographs, emojis, it was a breakthrough moment. "I realized that it was...
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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
This week in “Thanks, Internet” — Drake helps a blogger hit it big, Nintendo meets Twin Peaks, Ishmael's blog post, Muppets vs. Beasties, and Zelda Williams remembers her father. 1. ILoveMakonnen And...
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Remembering Five American Icons
In honor of Independence Day, WNYC presents this marathon of Studio 360's American Icons, a series of documentaries about defining works of American art. 10am: MonticelloMonticello is home renovation...
View ArticleCall Me Ishmael
The composer and performer Laurie Anderson was inspired by the novel to write a strange, cool, modern opera. Her Songs and Stories from Moby-Dick premiered in 1999. Thanks to KCRW's Morning Becomes...
View ArticleThe Original Improvisor
Music historian Stanley Crouch includes Moby-Dick in his lectures about jazz history at Juilliard, even though the novel was written over five decades before jazz developed. According to Crouch,...
View ArticleTony Kushner
Playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) says that Moby-Dick had the single greatest impact on his own writing.
View ArticleElizabeth Schultz
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...
View ArticleMody-Dude
Studio 360 presents the world premiere of Moby-Dude from David Ives, the master of the short play. Mark Price plays a contemporary teenager who summarizes the great American novel for his English...
View ArticleBonus Feature: Rinde Eckert
Composer Rinde Eckert's opera And God Created Great Whales is a meditation on creativity, memory, madness, and Moby-Dick. Produced by Jeff Lunden.
View ArticleThe Grand Armada
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...
View ArticleHe Rises
The great fantasy and science fiction master Ray Bradbury was still relatively unknown when the director John Huston tapped him to adapt Moby-Dick for the big screen. Bradbury tells Kurt Andersen how...
View ArticleFrank Stella
In 1986, legendary sculptor and painter Frank Stella defied Melville's instruction not to paint the White Whale, and then spent the next twelve years chasing an artistic obsession that Stella says...
View ArticleThe Pequod vs. The Enterprise
In her modern opera, Songs and Stories from Moby-Dick, Laurie Anderson compares two great sagas about America — Moby-Dick and Star Trek.
View ArticlePolitical Resonance
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...
View ArticleSpecial Guest: Edward Herrmann
Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor Edward Herrmann is our voice of Ishmael. Herrmann boasts an impressive career that spans more than 30 years in theater, film and television.
View ArticleLA Opera Presents 'Moby-Dick'
This Saturday at 1 pm, tune in to hear Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick from the LA Opera. Called a "whale-tale with staying power" by the Los Angeles Times, this production stars Jay Hunter Morris as the...
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‘Moby-Dick,’ an American Epic Come to Life
The LA Opera’s final broadcast presentation of the season is Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick, the operatic adaptation of Herman Melville’s American epic. Jay Hunter Morris stars as Captain Ahab, the...
View ArticleMoby on Living Large and Falling Hard
Moby had already put out four studio albums when Play was released in 1999. He was solidly into his 30s, playing gigs in record stores and thinking about a career-change. But Play, against all...
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