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Tales of a Bear: «The squirrel that made a forest disappear»            

An original animated music fairy-tale for children

Tales of a Bear: «The squirrel that made a forest disappear»  is part of the broader project "Tales of a Talking Piano" and is a music fairy-tale for children and adults, in which contemporary piano music composed on the subject of the child is intertwined with an original fairy-tale.          

A squirrel, the darkness-woman and a walking tree meet up in an original music fairy tale about diversity. Stop motion animation and contemporary music create a magic forest of sounds and images, inspired by Sofia Gubaidulina’s work Musical Toys (1969).

Music curation (musical collage, improvisation), piano, keyboard, mechanical-clockwork toys: Ann-Kristin Sofroniou
Original story, libretto: Andriana Minou
Illustration, animation: Christina Spanou
Narration, singing, vocal improvisation: Maria Katrivesi
Sound recording, editing: Kostas Bokos – Studio 19

Commissioned by the Greek National Opera as part of the 6th Online festival «The Bear and the Baritone on Other Planets» on GNO TV [available from December 2021 until April 2022]

© 2024 by Ann-Kristin Sofroniou

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