Tina Nunnally/Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
Megan Sukys/Dave Beck
05/02/2005
Today's Featured Music Selection: 'Once On This Island'
How traditions, stories and values are passed from generation to generation and culture to culture is explored in the musical Once On This Island, now on stage at ArtsWest in West Seattle. The story and songs look at the cultural split between the wealthy white landowners of an island and the peasants and people of color there. The musical was written by Lynn Ahrens and Steve Flaherty who previously created Ragtime and Seussical, the Musical.
The musical deals with classic themes of love, loss and redemption through the fabric of island culture, art, religion and social structure. The story on which the musical is based has its roots in the Hans Christian Andersen tale The Little Mermaid.
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Once On This Island continues on stage at ArtsWest through May 7.
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At 2:05pm - Tina Nunnally/Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
2005 marks the 200 year anniversary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen. At a time when children’s stories were formal, moral and didactic, Hans Christian Andersen revolutionized the genre, giving an anarchic twist to traditional folklore and creating a remarkably large body of original stories that sprang directly from his imagination. From the exuberant early stories such as The Emperor’s New Clothes, though poignant masterpieces such as The Little Mermaid and The Ugly Duckling, to the darker, more subversive later tales written for adults, the stories are endlessly experimental, both humorous and irreverent, sorrowful and strange. Tina Nunnally’s recent translations capture the rawness and immediacy of Andersen’s style, for the first time enabling English readers to be as startled and amazed as his original readers were. Megan Sukys speaks with Tina Nunnally about translating the Andersen tales.
At 2:33pm - Seattle Reads 'When the Emperor Was Divine'
Julie Otsuka's 2003 debut novel tells the story of an unnamed Japanese American family's internment during World War II. When the Emperor Was Divine is this year's selection for Seattle Reads, an annual, city-wide project sponsored by the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library. Today we'll hear excerpts from the Random House audio book, When the Emperor Was Divine, read by Elaina Erika Davis.
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At 2:50pm - Nancy Pearl
Nancy Pearl, public radio librarian and author of Book Lust and More Book Lust, joins us weekly to share her book reviews.
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