Episode 44 is a profile of “Canopy Meg” — forest ecologist Meg Lowman, whose work revealed the “eighth continent” of life in treetop canopies everywhere.  Dr. Lowman talks with Warren Senders about her long career exploring forests all over the globe, and we share music on tree themes (including Meg’s own composition from 6th grade as played by Cool Tunes team member Seth Handelman!).

#RainForests #Trees #Ecology #Music #Environment
Music and Video
"The Perfumed Forest
Wet With Rain"
Abdullah Ibrahim
from "Dollar Brand at Montreux"
Enja ER-3079
Interview with Meg Lowman
May 29, 2026
"The Leaf Detective"
Video trailer courtesy
Heather Lang
"Now Every Tree Renews"
Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623)
The 200 Singers
October 30, 2022
"Underneath The Pines"
COPYRIGHT 1996 David Dodson
Sung by Kallet, Epstein & Cicone
from "Heartwalk" — Overall Music OM-3
"First Indian Sketch"
Charles Tomlinson Griffes — Composer
The Kreiner Quartet
Friends of Recorded Music
Disc 5-A
"Somersaults in Song/
Hannibal Air"
Composed by Meg Lowman
Seth Handelman — clarinet
"Hark Each Tree Its Silence Breaks"
Henry Purcell — Composer
Performed by La Tempesta, Poland
December 17, 2016
"The Birks of Aberfeldie"
Lyrics — Robert Burns, Tune traditional
Performed by Jean Redpath, from
"Sings the Songs of Robert Burns Vol. 5"
Philo 1093
Scotland photographs
courtesy Meg Lowman
Sounds of the Tambourine rainforest,
Australia, recorded by Jereme Hegge
Yagua Elders sing Ancestral Songs
January 19, 2026
Outside Iquitos, Peru
Courtesy Conscious Collective &
Paititi Institute
Amazon canopy walkway video
Courtesy Tree Foundation
"Saghan bana bole re koyaliya"
Khyal in Raga Maru Bihag
Sung by the Kashyap Brothers
Vadodara, India, April 4, 2020
Courtesy Komal Nishaad
"Prayer of Praise to the Creator"
Bahta Church, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Unesco Anthology of African Music
BM 30L 2304
Ethiopia photographs & video
courtesy The Tree Foundation
Ba'Aka Pygmy video
Courtesy Michelle Kisliuk
"Alus — Spirit of the Tiger"
Hala Alus, Ulu Nenggiri, Kelantan
December 3, 1941
Upper Perak, Malaya
From "Temiar Dream Music of Malaya"
Folkways FE 4460 (1955)
Penang Bioblitz video
courtesy Tree Foundation
"Redwood"
Paul Chihara — composer
Rose Wollman — Viola
Ross Erickson — Percussion
April 24, 2013
"Tree of Life"
Dorothy Carter & Bob Rutman
From "Waillee Waillee"
Celeste CR 1004 (1978)
"Fleurette Africaine (African Flower"
Composed by Duke Ellington
Performed by Ed Eastridge
August 2014
"Now Every Tree Renews"
Thomas Weelkes — Composer
The Electric Madrigal Society
Directed by Elliot Thompson
"Lý Cây Đa (The Banyan Tree)"
Vietnamese folk song
Performed by Nguyễn Thanh Thuỷ

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