The group's take on the Hans Christian Andersen folk tale is available Brazos Bookstore and Barnes & Noble River Oaks, as well as online through Amazon and Barn
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“It was not a thing we set out to do in our strategic plan,” says ROCO founder, artistic director, and principal oboist Alecia Lawyer. “It was just a lovely, wonderful development that was very organic and stemmed from people first. That's what I love. It wasn't something [like] ‘Let’s do something for kids.’ This came out of a true love of music, art, storytelling, and the beauty of illustration.
That plan had little chance of flying with Disney’s famously protective lawyers. ROCO decided instead on a piece that could be accompanied by several illustrations, much less time-consuming and expensive than animation. For the artwork they turned to Ducos, a college friend of ROCO managing director Amy Gibbs. Lawyer had given St. John carte blanche to program the concert, so he asked his friend Lau to come up with a suitable fairy tale to serve as a frame.
“It’s very well-written for the instrument, but more importantly, it brings the story to life,” he says. “It brings it to life in a way that’s both very contemporary and has that fairy-tale timeless quality.”
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