Patterson Little Red Riding Hood, based on the story by Roald Dahl
Britten Simple Symphony
Join us for a family treat, as the DECO brings Paul Patterson’s musical interpretation of Dahl’s fabulously twisted take on this timeless fairy tale alive, with Dahl’s words spoken freely against the orchestral background. The orchestra evokes an enchanted forest, through which the Narrator makes his way to begin the story. Thereafter it illustrates the narrative, with themes to match the characters and the action, in the popular tradition of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Poulenc’s Babar the Elephant. But remember, as the opening lines insist: “nothing is ever quite what it seems…”
The programme also includes a performance of Benjamin Britten’s boisterous Simple Symphony, which consists entirely of material written by the composer between the ages of nine and 12.
“ Roald Dahl would have approved of this stunning adaptation of his Little Red Riding Hood… Unmissable!” Daily Mail.
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