SKU: HL.14003398

UPC: 884088430092. 9x12 inches. English.

Based on historical fact, this refreshing musical takes place in Austria and tells how the carol Silent Night came to be written. As winter closes in, Barny the church mouse chews the organ bellows to curb his hunger. When the organ no longer plays all the notes, Barny fears that he has spoilt Christmas for the villagers, but there is a way round the problem! This work contains songs, dance, narration and dialogue, and is suitable for perormance in church or school. There is a lagre cast list, with four principal characters plus narrator. If you need to license a school/youth theatre performance of this product, please use the online application form.

SKU: HL.48186445

UPC: 888680829384. 9x12 inches.

“'What's important in music that's based on a poem ' on the emotion inspired by a poem ' is the music and power of emotion it harbours within itself'. These words, written in 1949 by poet Pierre Reverdy, would make a deep impression on composer Betsy Jolas. She'd just sent the writer her Six mélodies for mezzo-soprano and piano composed on poems from his masterwork Plupart du temps. The songs were accompanied by a letter that betrayed her fear of distorting his ideas. In creative terms, there was no need to worry ' Betsy Jolas must have placed this conviction at the heart of her reflection on the relation between text and music. Nearly sixty years later, the musician decided to take several fragments of these beloved poems of Reverdy and place them, in the form of quotations, into new musical and theatrical perspectives. The exalted memory of the words led to D'Un Journal D'Amour, a mini-cantata for Voice and Alto offered as a wedding gift to soprano Eliette Prévôt and violist Antoine Tamestit, who premiered it together in Montreuil in 2010.&rdquo.