The fanciful dream continues to reveal more treasured treats. We meet unexpected—yet very welcome—luminaries as we bid a fond farewell to our beloved, enchanted island.
All of this while you rest, relax, let go, and—nap, if you’d like. Sweet dreams.
DEDICATION
This season is dedicated in loving memory to the extraordinary
Michael McClure
(October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020).
CAST
Lady Dosis
Jodie Kleeman
Lord Dosis
Robert Wyald
Writers
Jodie Kleeman
Robert Wyald
Producer, Director
Sound Design & Engineer
Robert Wyald
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POEMS REMIXED & REVERED
(THANK YOU, ARTISTS)
Poems and parts of poems and their translations are woven into and transformed inside our voyage heeding the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use of Poetry.
It is our sincere hope that hearing these poems transformed will serve as inspiration to delve into the authors’ original and complete works.
“Ode to Wine”
Pablo Neruda tr. by Margaret Sayers Peden
“i like my body”
e e cummings
“Native Moments”
Uncle Walt Whitman
“When I was the Forest”
Meister Eckhart tr. by Daniel Ladinsky
MUSIC MIXED & REVERED
(THANK YOU, ARTISTS)
“Let the Rest of the World Go By”
composed by Ernest R. Ball and J. Keirn Brennan
performed by Tom Bopp
“Slow Brassy New Orleans Jazz Band”
“Santa Lucia”
performed by Enrico Caruso
Creative Commons 3.0
“Goldberg Variations BWV 988, Aria”
composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
performed by Kimiko Ishizaka
“Whitman Approaches”
performed and composed by Joshua-Michéle Ross
“Etude Op. 10, no. 3 in E major · ‘Tristesse’”
composed by Frédéric Chopin
performed by Edward Neeman
“Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No.1 – 3. Villanella”
composed by Ottorino Respighi
performed by the United States Marine Band
“Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 – II. Larghetto”
composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
performed by the United States Marine Chamber Orchestra