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David Haines: Love songs to science

By Eleanor Harris

14 October 2009

writes songs celebrating anything and everything about science, from evolution to the solar system. Eleanor Harris caught up with him at rehearsals for his Tremendous Journey concert this month.

What is Tremendous Journey about?

The concert will feature 15 songs about the science of life and evolution. It’s a shorter version of my “science oratorio”, Lifetime. We open with a song called Mr Darwin, which tells the story of his historic voyage aboard the Beagle. Then there is Selfish Gene, a song referring to Richard Dawkins’s work, and Living Light, Queen Bee, Bacteria and Taxonomy.

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