I suppose I should say that I saw the Knussen/Sendak double bill at
Southampton many years ago. Not for me I dont think. The kids seemed to like
it.
Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England ....
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: outside over there
> Dammit, sorry, how stupid of me! My mind had got it all overlaid with
> 'Gawain and the Green Knight', which Birtwhistle certainly set. All this
> substratum in my mind, about the problems of singing in masks and/or false
> heads, and then I go and think of the wrong head.
>
> Yes, of course, Knussen, a much more comfortable composer all round.
> Definitely much more the sort of thing you could take the kids to see.
>
> best joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MJ Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 8:54 PM
> Subject: Re: outside over there
>
>
>> [another that got rejected...I'm crossing my fingers]
>> I don't think Harrison Birtwistle would ever have set such a libretto,
>> his work being *far* more astringent/violent/archetypal etc. The music
>> is by the English composer/conductor Oliver Knussen, whose work (he also
>> set *Higglety Pigglety Pop*) is much more "culinary" (to use a Brechtian
>> term.) Birtwistle's first opera was *Punch and Judy*, which is much less
>> easy to consume, not to say nerve-wracking. I believe you are right in
>> thinking Sendak did the libretto.
>> mj
>>
>> Joanna Boulter wrote:
>>
>>> I'm pretty certain that Sendak did the libretto for Harrison
>>> Birtwhistle's
>>> opera Where the Wild Things Are, and that the sets (of course) were
>>> based on
>>> the book illustrations.
>>>
>>> I bought this book for my small children in what must have been 1973,
>>> and my
>>> mother nicked it, so I had to get another copy for the kids.
>>>
>>> best joanna
>>>
>>
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