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WOSAS/CD268/track3 R938.wav |
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Seven Ravens, The
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| Sound recording, story; The Seven Ravens, a wonder tale from Germany collected by The Brothers Grimm, told by Sally Pomme Clayton, in a studio and home recording made by The Company of Storytellers, in the home of Sally Pomme Clayton, in London 1985, for retail purposes. | |
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| Music played by The Company of Storytellers, followed by story told by Sally Pomme Clayton and further music by The Company of Storytellers. A story about a couple with seven sons. When a daughter is born, the brothers are sent to collect water. They argue and drop the bucket down the well, and, cursed by their father, they are turned into seven ravens. The daughter grows up, learns of the story and makes a journey to the centre of the earth to find her brothers. A star gives the duaghter a bone, as a key to the glass mountain. She reaches the mountain, but having lost the bone, cuts off her own finger to use as a key. Inside the glass mountain she finds and releases her brothers. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 11 minutes, 13 seconds |
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| The Company of Storytellers at this time comprised Ben Haggarty, Sally Pomme Clayton, Hugh Lupton and Dasiy Keable. This was the first commercial tape they produced. | |
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| The Company of Storytellers (C.O.S.T) was formed in March/April 1985 with the expressed aim of performing storytelling for adult audiences. C.O.S.T was actually formed during a tour in East Anglia by Sally Pomme Clayton, Hugh Lupton and Ben Haggarty. The official launch of COST was in 1986 at Common Stock Theatre, London. At this point the members of C.O.S.T were Sally Pomme Clayton, TUUP, Ben Haggarty, Daisy Keable, Hugh Lupton. However TUUP and Daisy Keable did not remain in the group and it is as a trio of storytellers, Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton, that C.O.S.T is publicly known. C.O.S.T was disbanded in 1999, but periodically reforms to perform the Three Snake Leaves. The two seminal pieces developed and performed by C.O.S.T were The Three Snake Leaves and I Become Part of It. | |
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| storytelling:- | storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad;
Georgiana Keable female / British / Norwegian |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| origin:- |
folklorist: The Brothers Grimm
folklorist: Jakob Grimm folklorist: Wilhelm Grimm Germany, Europe |
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storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers retail |
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Brixton, London, England
1985 studio recording home recording |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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