{"product_id":"meet-my-folks-by-gordon-crosse-ted-hughes","title":"'Meet My Folks!' by  Gordon Crosse \u0026 Ted Hughes","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"49\" data-end=\"496\"\u003eGordon Crosse’s \u003cem data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"81\"\u003eMeet My Folks!\u003c\/em\u003e transforms eight of Ted Hughes’s comic family poems into a miniature work of music theatre for speaker, children’s chorus, percussion ensemble and adult instrumentalists.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"49\" data-end=\"496\"\u003eThe poems introduce a household of outsized relations—a formidable grandma, peculiar grandparents, siblings and parents—through the child’s-eye logic of exaggeration, where family mythology becomes grotesque, affectionate and faintly alarming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"498\" data-end=\"1062\"\u003eComposed as \u003cem data-start=\"510\" data-end=\"533\"\u003eA Theme and Relations\u003c\/em\u003e, Op. 10, the work was first performed at the 1964 Aldeburgh Festival. Crosse’s score is unusually theatrical and flexible, combining conventional orchestral writing with children’s percussion, humming, spoken verse and George Adamson’s anarchic illustrations. This is the complete 68-page full score rather than the much shorter vocal booklet: an appealing object for collectors of Hughes, twentieth-century British music, illustrated scores and the stranger edges of children’s literature. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1064\" data-end=\"1242\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, Oxford University Press, 1965. Illustrated softcover full score. Light rubbing, creasing and edgewear to covers; internally clean and sound.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45873060347987,"sku":null,"price":95.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-07-28T143901.193.png?v=1785213566","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/meet-my-folks-by-gordon-crosse-ted-hughes","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}