Plentiful peach (World Premiere, 2015)
Commission by the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus
Composer Mark Grey | Librettist Niloufar Talebi
Adapted from a short story, “Yek Holoo, Hezaar Holoo” by Samad Behrangi (1939 - 1967)
World Premiere Sunday April 19, 2015 @ 2:30 PM
Stanford Live Performance
Southern California premiere May 3 & 10 @ 7 PM
Pasadena Presbyterian Church
Samad Behrangi is one of the greatest Iranian writers of the 20th Century. He was a native of Azerbaijan, where he taught school, wrote children’s and young adult books, and wrote pedagogical essays, advocating for children’s education rights. He drowned in the Aras river at the age of 28.
His most famous works areThe Little Black Fish, (ماهی سیاه کوچولو); Talkhoon; Oldooz and the Talking Doll; Oldooz and the Crows; and One Peach, One Thousand Peaches (یک هلو هزار هلو “Yek Holoo, Hezaar Holoo”). The Plentiful Peach is the coming of age story of a peach and the brave children who secretly grow her—against the master’s odds.
