Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California's Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto

From: California Legacy Project
Length: 01:50:16

Listeners will find Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California’s Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto both entertaining and enlightening. Two one hour programs draw on dramatic readings of California landscape writing and commentary by prominent humanities scholars. Featured will be award-winning writer and organic farmer David Mas Masumoto, whose books include Heirlooms, Letters to the Valley, Four Seasons in Five Senses, Harvest Son, Epitaph for a Peach, and Wisdom of the Last Farmer. Read the full description.

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"Nature Dreaming takes us on a lively and engaging journey through California's history and across its many landscapes. Diverse voices, each with a unique perspective, add up to a chorus of joy and wonder. The listener has no choice but to sing along." Malcolm Margolin, Publisher, Heyday

"Excellent, Excellent, Excellent!" Gary Noy, Director Center for Sierra Nevada Studies

Listeners will find Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California’s Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto both entertaining and enlightening. Two one hour programs draw on dramatic readings of California landscape writing and commentary by prominent humanities scholars. Featured is award-winning writer and Central Valley farmer David Mas Masumoto, whose books include Heirlooms, Letters to the Valley, Four Seasons in Five Senses, Harvest Son, Epitaph for a Peach, and Wisdom of the Last Farmer.

Nature Dreaming focuses on California stories that are grounded in local experience, sensitive to the delicate ecological balance of the planet, suspicious of abstraction, and celebratory of the relationships between human beings and their environment. Listeners will appreciate these main features:

Dramatic readings from some of the best writers on California’s natural world, among them John Muir, Mary Austin, Robinson Jeffers, Jack London, and Mark Twain
Interviews with leading scholars on Californian natural history writing
Lively readings by David Mas Masumoto
Sound-rich production with ambient sound, special effects, and music by Bernhard Drax
A content-rich website that links to video of Nature Dreaming actors and commentators, the working scripts for both segments, and a list of literary sources for the production. See http://californialegacy.org/radio_productions/Nature_Dreaming/index.html

Richly textured sound will lead listeners to ponder their own relationship to the natural world, to recover, at least in part, the enduring pastoral dream of a California Eden. Nature Dreaming connects our present to our past through the compelling exploration of these timeless motifs:

Sustainability
Life writing and natural history
Women's voices
History and literature of California

Nature Dreaming is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and is a production of hte California Legacy Project at Santa Clara University.

Piece Description

"Nature Dreaming takes us on a lively and engaging journey through California's history and across its many landscapes. Diverse voices, each with a unique perspective, add up to a chorus of joy and wonder. The listener has no choice but to sing along." Malcolm Margolin, Publisher, Heyday

"Excellent, Excellent, Excellent!" Gary Noy, Director Center for Sierra Nevada Studies

Listeners will find Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California’s Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto both entertaining and enlightening. Two one hour programs draw on dramatic readings of California landscape writing and commentary by prominent humanities scholars. Featured is award-winning writer and Central Valley farmer David Mas Masumoto, whose books include Heirlooms, Letters to the Valley, Four Seasons in Five Senses, Harvest Son, Epitaph for a Peach, and Wisdom of the Last Farmer.

Nature Dreaming focuses on California stories that are grounded in local experience, sensitive to the delicate ecological balance of the planet, suspicious of abstraction, and celebratory of the relationships between human beings and their environment. Listeners will appreciate these main features:

Dramatic readings from some of the best writers on California’s natural world, among them John Muir, Mary Austin, Robinson Jeffers, Jack London, and Mark Twain
Interviews with leading scholars on Californian natural history writing
Lively readings by David Mas Masumoto
Sound-rich production with ambient sound, special effects, and music by Bernhard Drax
A content-rich website that links to video of Nature Dreaming actors and commentators, the working scripts for both segments, and a list of literary sources for the production. See http://californialegacy.org/radio_productions/Nature_Dreaming/index.html

Richly textured sound will lead listeners to ponder their own relationship to the natural world, to recover, at least in part, the enduring pastoral dream of a California Eden. Nature Dreaming connects our present to our past through the compelling exploration of these timeless motifs:

Sustainability
Life writing and natural history
Women's voices
History and literature of California

Nature Dreaming is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and is a production of hte California Legacy Project at Santa Clara University.

Timing and Cues

Each hour segment includes a 1 minute billboard with news lead in; 6 minute news hole; 53 minute continuous main program.

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