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COVER STORY First Night 2000: A sampler Stories with strings     MORE INFORMATION Sat. 1-1:45 p.m., 2:15-3 p.m., 3:30-4:15 p.m. Hynes: Room 102 "Cello Tales" This Family Festival offering at the Hynes isn't a storyteller weaving yarns with the mellow undertones of a cello in the background. It's an interchange of voice and instrument, story and music. "As a theater person, writing music revues, I've worked with an accompanist," says storyteller Leeny Del Seamonds of her collaboration with cellist Gideon Freudmann. "This is different. It's a tandem piece." "In one story, 'Suki,' the title character, is a magical crane who wants to give an old couple a gift," Del Seamonds explains. "She goes into the weaving room, and I say, 'When Suki went in to weave the cloth, "Clack, clack, clack" went the ancient loom.' And Gideon will make that sound. He'll match it to the pitch of my voice." In another story, a character starts to cry. Sharing the story with Freudmann in rehearsal, Del Seamonds made the crying sound and he echoed it on his cello. "It gave me such chills!" Del Seamonds recalls. "We looked at each other and said, 'This is special.'" - Cate McQuaid Previous page | First page

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