of the sea

Then the song lands with the booming declaration: “I am Moana! / Of the land and of the sea / And I promise / That is who I’ll always be / I must go / I will go / It will go / What lies beyond.”

Hughes said uncovering them is a labor-intensive, delicate process that involves peeling back rock layers, flipping them over, dusting them off, and piecing them back together to get "a really nice snapshot of the sea floor."

The 32-mile Catalina Classic is one of the most grueling endurance contests on the planet — an ultra-marathon of the sea — and an annual rite of passage in Southern California surf culture.

He sets the stage for the musical in the song “The Advantage of Floating in the Middle of the Sea,” which surveys the customs that have defined a civilization that has made the most of its insularity.

The bluish shades of the work reminded viewers of large expanses of the sea or sky.