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GOLDILOCKS & THE THREE BEARS
Music by Kurt Schwertsik
Text adapted by Donald Sturrock
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For narrator/s and symphony orchestra
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30 minutes
Published by Boosey and Hawkes
"A series of beautifully crazed dances"
The Scotsman
“[Schwertsik’s] colourful, rhythmically pungent interpretations delivered… wit and originaility”
The Herald
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears is a flexible and witty work of music theatre. Its composer, Kurt Schwertsik, born in 1935 and now the doyen of Viennese composers, is a brilliant orchestrator with a formidably impish sense of humour. Goldilocks is a series of subversive dances, interludes and melodramas written for a conventional chamber orchestra. The action is set in a forest courtroom with an animal judge and jury, and features a family of bears who turn the tables on the would-be litigant, Miss Goldie Locks.
ORCHESTRATION
1 or more Narrator/s
Symphony orchestra:
8.6.4.4.2. 2.2.2.2. 2.2.0.0. timp
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The work can be presented in staged, semi-staged or concert versions. It also appears in a concert suite called Goldilocks Dances.
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TRANSLATIONS
German and Dutch
RECORDINGS
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra/Russell Davies
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For more about Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes:
http://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/stories/1980s/revolting-rhymes
PERFORMANCES
WORLD PREMIERE
Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Gruber,
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 1997
In 2000 a recording was made by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.
Recent performances have taken place in Switzerland, The Netherlands, Austria, the UK and the USA.
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Link to a video of Goldilocks from the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest: