Child’s tale taps emotional scales
Two composers have collaborated on a work which captures their response to a picture book story about a little girl's bad day, writes Clare Morgan.
EVERYONE knows the feeling. You wake up with the nameless dreads, as if a dark cloud is hanging over you and nobody understands why you feel so low or can penetrate that sense of being alone.
The Australian author and artist Shaun Tan captured such emotions exquisitely in his children's picture book The Red Tree, the deceptively simple story of a little girl struggling through a bad day, confused and afraid, until a final, glorious blossoming of hope.
