THE LAND
DISC ONE
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THE ORIGINAL HARVEST
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LINER NOTES
1. LISTEN TO THE LAND (ENTRANCE PLAZA)
The fourth of seven incredibility innovative compositions created for EPCOT Center’s Entrance Plaza. ‘Listen to the
Land’ is a near perfect combination of electronic accents and sweeping Aaron Copland style orchestral chords. Its
percussively upbeat rhythms are only surpassed by the uplifting strings of its medley. As the middle composition for
the Entrance Plaza, it serves as a wonderfully impactful climax to EPCOT Center’s Overture.
2. PAVILION ATMOSPHERE
An unusual hybrid of American Folk songs and electronically based arrangements. The Pavilion Atmosphere conveys
an image of agrarian harmony in a technological world that perfectly complements the futuristic greenhouse for
which it underscores.
THE HARVEST THEATER
3. SYMBIOSIS, A CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP
This 70mm film depicts the delicate balance between technological progress and environmental integrity. "Symbiosis"
displays the resourcefulness of nearly 70 countries, the history of agriculture, and the challenges and triumphs of providing nourishment to an ever expanding population while balancing ecological concerns that effect the planet.
THE GOOD TURN RESTAURANT
4. REVOLVING RESTAURANT
With its Burgundy walls and chrome fixtures, the ‘Good Turn Restaurant’ is decidedly refined. Yet, for all its
sophistication, the atmospheric music of this perpetually rotating café is presented in sharp contrast to surroundings.
One of several variations of Bob Moline’s Listen to the Land, this traditional country version speaks to the agrarian
theme of the pavilion during the Kraft years.
LISTEN TO THE LAND
5. LISTEN TO THE LAND
Bob Moline’s choral Folk style of The Land’s main theme music, this version begins our journey through “Tomorrow’s
Harvest”. Bob is joined by a chorus of children all singing about the life cycle of a seed.
6. SYMPHONY OF THE SEED
A Walt Peregory stylized abstraction of photosynthesis, designed by Walter Peregoy, where massive vines and root structures glow from nutrients feeding the fruits and vegetables featured at the end of the tableau. The music is an appropriately circular composition that portrays the wondrous process of converting sunlight into produce and produce into food.
FARMER’S MARKET
7. THE SUN AND THE MOON MEDLEY
Encircling a domed white fountain sculpted to resemble a bountiful harvest, is "Farmer’s Market" an expansive food
court featuring a wide assortment of offerings. The music for the area is an eclectic mixture of songs from across the musical spectrum treated with either a Jazz or Country arrangement. To spite its disparate themes, each song features either the Sun or Moon in subject matter, further reinforcing the harvest theme.
THE KITCHEN KABARET REVUE
8. REVUE LOBBY
Featuring posters depicting the Kabaret’s headlining acts; the lobby leads to a small town square where various culinary storefronts begin to play with your sense of scale. Analogously, the music changes from room to room, with the understated Lobby’s Jazz piano giving way to the kinetic energy of Big Band in the square.
9. THE KITCHEN KABARET
Starring Bonnie Appetite, Kitchen Kabaret is the show that has the whole town cooking. Featuring musical numbers by acts such as: Mr. Dairy Goods, The Cereal Sisters, and the comedy styling of Hamm’n Eggz, the show culminates in a memorable finale, performed by the Colander Combo and the Fiesta Fruit!
10. KABARET CODA
As we say goodbye to the Kabaret, we’re serenaded by a medley of the show’s music followed by echoes of the fiesta
in the kitchen.
