Art song and piano music, including a new song for Sop, Mezzo, and Piano 4-hand.

https://woods-hole.squarespace.com/events/celebrating-the-challenger-expedition

From their website: “The HMS Challenger expedition was a groundbreaking exploration of the world’s ocean and the first to systematically explore its deepest regions. It is recognized globally as the event that created oceanography as a discipline and gave a tremendous push to the advancement of marine biology. The expedition, funded by the Royal Society, left England on 21 December 1872 with both scientists and naval crew on board. It sailed the world for three and a half years, collecting data from remote places and conducting research on hundreds of samples and thousands of marine creatures retrieved from the deep ocean. The Challenger expedition resulted in an extraordinary and ambitious chronicling of its science research in the form of 50 volumes which include among the most extensive and important images of marine organisms ever created. They continue to provide research material and inspire artists and scientists alike. One hundred and fifty years hence, we have new extraordinary kinds of instrumentation and techniques for imaging marine organisms, including an array of specialized microscopes, sensors, and even artificial intelligence-driven image processing that enable remarkable new discoveries in the ocean. The proposed exhibit will highlight the extraordinary marine biological illustrations stemming from the Challenger expedition and provide opportunities for visitors to compare and contrast them to the cutting edge of biological visualization as practiced today at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, which is on the forefront of this method of inquiry.

Plus an exhibit of images featuring the drawings of master illustrator Ernst Haeckel and cutting-edge digital microscopy images from MBL scientists.”