
The big fat pancake
Music: Alf Hoffmann
Text : Folk tale
duration: approx. 14 minutes
This fairy tale – known in many countries around the world – thrives on simple language, repetition and enumerations.
The fairy tale is about a pancake that has come to life and escapes into the forest, where it encounters various animals that want to eat it (hare, wolf, goat, horse, pig). However, he rolls away from each animal.
In the end, he meets three hungry children and lets them eat him.
Chamber music instrumentation:
Violin (flute), cello, piano, narrator.
performances:
UA Musikzentrum Bamberg
Theatre Dortmund
German, other languages on request.
View material and demo – CD on request
The scores and the orchestral parts will be available for rental from Alf Hoffmann.
Titel Bild: Lars Weber