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| Francesca writes for noted composer Mervyn Burtch MBE. Their collaboration include ‘Hail Taliesin’, a collection of songs for the Youth Choir of Wales; ‘The Green Isles of the Ocean’ a narrative work commissioned by the Tenby Music Festival; and ‘The First Dragon’, for narrator and orchestra, originally commissioned as a companion piece for ‘Peter and the Wolf’. |
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With Francesca narrating, The First
Dragon has received 15 performances to date, delighting children and adults
alike. To further promote the piece, a cd was recorded on 7th January 2007
at Sonic-One Studios. Adrian Partington conducted The Dragon Sinfonia,
amongst whose members could be found many members of the National Orchestra
of Wales. Francesca narrated. |
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'The First Dragon' forms part of a
'Young Composers' education pack,
produced by Ty Cerdd the Music Centre
of Wales. It has been used with great
success in a project where,
after listening to the First Dragon, the children wrote their own versions of the story and then recorded their own
words and music. |
Here is Stella, the little girl who
befriends the First Dragon, beautifully imagined by Charlotte Griffin. |
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The project will form a regular part of the education programme. Charlotte Griffin, Education Co ordinator at Ty Cerdd, has
beautifully illustrated the story for the pack. A performance is planned for
Spring 2009, which will be an collaboration between Ty Cerdd and the Welsh College of Music and Drama.
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And here is the First Dragon's eye! |
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©2008 Francesca Kay |
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