Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Tiny Desk Concert
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The third song Sheku Kanna-Mason performs is “Myfanwy.” The way I’d remembered his introduction to the song is he heard his Welsch grandmother singing it as a child. Going back to the video, that’s not quite what he said. Anyhow early exposure to music is a great gift for children.
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The Kanneh-Mason family are remarkable musicians and collaborated on an album of Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals.Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s newly released album is Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Song
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it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!
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*Sandalphon walks around the palace, stumbling upon a blanket fort and peering inside. Bea looks up from their book and smiles at him nervously, not recognising the archangel.*
~Hello there, little one. Can I have your name?~
#…Mama said to not answer strangers that question.#
~Ah, well, I am Sandalphon, the archangel of unborn children and music. I’m not a stranger anymore, so problem solved.~
*Bea seems to think it over, before shaking their head*
#Mama and Papa haven’t mentioned you so I shouldn’t trust!#
~So rude to not answer to your elders.~
#But-#
~-Really, for your mother and father not to be teaching you manners is such a shame. Who are they? I must have a word. Especially since they are letting you just… clutter up the palace I live in.~
#…I don’t- Mama and Papa are- they- you live here..?#
~Indeed I do. Though really, aren’t you too old to be calling your parents such childish names?~
#…They’re Mama and Papa-#
~Insolent little brat. Take this… thing down before I inform the Heavenly Father.~
*Bea tears up a little, and Sandalphon scoffs before kicking at one of the pillows, making the blanket roof fall onto Bea, causing them to yelp. He grabs the blanket, pulling at their hair in the process.*
#Let me go!#
~Now now, child, I am not even touching you, stop kicking up a fuss over nothing.~
*Sandalphon pulls the blanket, yanking a chunk of their hair out. A scream echoes throughout Heaven.*
( @angels-maybe )
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There’s something so nice about how they used the word Beaming to mean grinning but also use imagery to imply that the star that guides the speaker is the person they’re coming to find.
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