MEDIATHEK

The little I-AM-ME
 
Dedicated to his youngest daughter, Georg Friedrich Haas transformed Mira Lobe's famous children's book Little I-Am-Me into music theater for a young audience. A contribution to the identification process of children and to early musical childhood education.
 
Certain instruments are assigned to express some of the individual motifs of the text:
 the flowering meadow is represented by the flute;
 the frog by the trumpet – in the beginning with damper, at the end without;
 mother horse and her child by baritone and tenor saxophone,
 the fish by the harp,
 the hippo mother by the bass tuba, her child by the cornet,
 the parrot by the bass clarinet,
 the dogs by English horn, clarinet and trombone,
 and the large soap-bubble by the contraforte resp. double bassoon.
 
Haas did not set the lyrics to music and therefore leaves space for a narrator, who narrates the story live on stage and interacts with the Little-I-Am and the animals appearing on stage as puppets, instruments or in the video. The Little-I-Am is performed pantomimicly by a dancer/performer.