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What can the audience at Gaspard’s Christmas in Edinburgh on 23 December expect to hear and see?

You will hear me narrating the story of  and see the book’s artist James Mayhew illustrating it live on stage, as the Royal Scottish National, the story is completely interwoven in the music and the various characters are represented by particular themes and instruments: Gaspard the fox is a bassoon; Peter the cat is a clarinet; Flinty the dog is a horn; and Flinty’s owner, Honey, is a harp.

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