Storytelling and music with Malcolm and Joshua Green
It’s shortly after dawn at RAF Fylingdales and a cuckoo is having a transmitter strapped to his back. A few weeks later he will have flown thousands of miles across Europe and over the Sahara Desert to equatorial Africa. For millennia, the cuckoo’s call has inspired songs, stories and poems. Does he bring the spring? Tell our fortunes? Was he the shapeshifter that became a hawk? He certainly fools the reed warblers who feed him as a changeling baby. Now the voice of the cuckoo is fading – where has he gone?
“Gone Cuckoo” is a love song to the most famous bird of the northern summer: intimate and moving, Malcolm and Joshua Green accompany the mythical cuckoo on its flight from northern England to sub-Saharan Africa with song and music. Their story of a bird that is disappearing more and more is also a metaphor for how we move through space and time, what we are remembered for and how we are forgotten.
The naturalist Malcolm Green has been a professional storyteller since 1982. His son Joshua accompanies him musically.
In English with explanations in German
Reservation: Tel. 0711.2022-444, anmeldung@lindenmuseum.de
In cooperation with Ars Narrandi e. V., with the kind support of the City of Stuttgart
€ 12/8
Dienstag bis Samstag, 10 – 17 Uhr
Sonn- und Feiertage, 10 – 18 Uhr
Ausstellungen
Sonderausstellungen
Dauerausstellungen
