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ERROLLYN WALLEN
Clothesburger
Opera for Children (Overture and One Act in 9 Scenes)
Words and music by Errollyn Wallen and 420 primary school children
For children’s chorus, children and adult soloists with piano
Score
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Commissioned by Pegasus Opera Company with funds from Sing Up, The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation, Ernest Cook Trust
First performed on Tuesday 23rd March at 1pm at the Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre, by children from primary schools in Lambeth, Southwark and Ealing and workshop leaders Denise K Christie, Herve Goffings, Alison Nicholls, Hyacinth Nicholls, Aga Serugo-Lugo, Robine Landi, Fiona Thomas, narrated and directed by Frances M Lynch with David Keefe on piano
This score reflects the state of editorial work and correction as at February 2010
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ERROLLYN WALLEN
Clothesburger
Opera for Children
(Overture and One Act in 9 Scenes)
Words and music by Errollyn Wallen and 420 primary school children
Children’s chorus
Children and adult soloists
Piano
Allenby Primary School
Aisha Maham
Kowsar Ahmed
Shoaib Chaudry
Roy Tilbury
Sheefa Al-Kaabi
Gunore Arora
Amina Ahmed
Tamera Joseph-Mark
Iman Abdali
Szymon Golen
Karan Randhawa
Navjot Takhar
Sulaik Ayub
Salma Suleiman
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Johnny Landrigan
Aliscia Maginley - Wilson
Ana Maldonado
Tracey Mireku
Jack Noone
Alexander On
Hannah Oseni
Billie Spivey
Reiss Trotman
Chloe Forte - Simms
Agnes Cassell
Bradley Adams
Abdulahi Ahmed
Tia Brown
Shea Burke
Karishma Vijayatharan
Manisha Rathod
Bavneesh Khosla
Shaandeep Dhillon
Hussein Hussein
Sanya Aggarawal
Ria Chatrath
Hiridika Nandra
Zahra Chatha
Saffron Francis
Javan Charles
Baljeet Sethi
Lubona Akter
Umar Hader
Suleega Arab
Khalid Ali
Amanraj Chana
Joana Da Silva
Ricky Dhariwal
Ali Farah
Kyden Field
Niketa Guatam
Isra Hussein
Nassir Ismail
Ilhan Jamal
Sharoze Khan
Leon Koshaba
Sabitha Kiritharan
Khalid Mahamed
Arjun Mair
Faisal Malik
Ben O’Moore
Sahra Osman
Taranjit Panesar
Skye Patmore
Chanel Purewal
Hanisha Raikhy
Hira Riaz
Mahnoor Riaz
Govinder Sanghera
Harkiran Sehmbi
Sofiane Smahi
Charlotte Sharman School
Mahira Begum
Ishmael Brown
Hope Connolly
Manuela Diaz-Nino
Kit Farino
Anis Ghebache
Courtney Hart
Sophia Hyatt
Ivonne Iguasina
Aneesah Choudhury
Maggie Dang
Zahraa Esayed
John Isichei
Chyna Marie Leslie
Josh McPherson
Grant Meyler
Chloe O’Driscoll
Jahmila Peat
Blaine Ridge Davis
Melesha Robinson
Chloe Williams
Laura Wright
Robert Wright
Humza Adam
Havelock Primary School
Salada Abukar
Anisa Aden
Hawra Al Jiryen
Muhammed Ali Elmi
Zaibunnisa Awan
Keyuri Dattani
Husna Dildar
Nimo Dualeh
Fatima Guled
Momina Hussain
Ibrahim Ibrahim
Jagmit Jagdev
Hani Jama
Maathula Kagenthirarasa
Lovejot Kaur
Taha Khan
Harmanpreet Mann
Thinekitha Mathybalan
Ismail McCrea
Jordan Mir
Abdirisaq Mohamed
Hafsa Mohamed
Vinith Naguleswaran
Sukhraj Rai
Lakchiya Ramachandran
Hila Raz
Bilal Saeed
Abdulhaq Salah
Amit Singh
Tankaran Singh
Mohammed Adbiwahid Abdulle
Munaza Ajmal
Khawla Ali Seif
Amira Badar
Guled Dalla
Danesh Duggal
Sunil Duggal
Najma Fazal
Amon Goncalves-Da Silva
Amandeep Gosal
Talha Hayat
Abinaya Karki
Ramsha Khan
Rayyan Khan
Khushdeep Kochhar
Aaron Kumar
Kirandeep Mahi
Amit Mangat
Abdirahim Mohammed
Hanad Nadif
Silvano Onoyango
Ranvir Sabharwal
Simranjit Sandhu
Avneet Sidhu
Enderjit Soni
Manraj Soor
Esha Sridhar
Ragavi Tharmakulasinam
Saranian Thiiagalingam
Zaqiya Younas
Ivydale Primary School
Theodore Aaron-Obelley
Joel Adjei
Safiyah Ajetunmobi
Mari-Rene Andonova
Sherelle Atouba
Oliver Bentley
Nicole Blades-Reid
Rosie Brewster
Kaylan Burnett
Morgan Cannon
Scarlett David-Gray
Euan Dungavel
Olivia Evagora
Dante Felix
Mark Glizeane
Ryan Hurley-Spicer
Omizi Ighodalo
Nathaniel Johnson
Marie-Louise Jugant
Krishma Kahol
Joshua Kaluba
Matai Kamara
Tia Kingston
Tyra Lafayette
Sorcha Lawlor-Hassan
Julia Ligeza
Claire Little
Taylor Martin
Keira-Grace McFarlane
Tyler McFarlane
Britney McGuiness
Jonah Muhammad
Micah Muhammad
Niyaz Noor
Oghosa Ogbeide-Ihama
Gabriel Okafor
Kola Omoniyi
Reece Richards
Tygar Smith
Lucy Taylor
Tai-San Thomas
Ali-Kolma Turay
Alfie Williams
Joshua Woodbridge
Marice Ximines
Jessop Primary School
Emanuel Ayuba
Abby Broadbent
Jessica Bryson
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Hamzat Isah
Jamila Karamoko
Kizrene Kenton
Raquel Marques Loureiro
Abdi-Wahab Nur
Alex Proctor
Gregesha Richards
Angela Rodriguez
Aiden Rye
Pamella Sielemann
Chelsey Stewart
Tetteh Tettey
Jenica Thompson
Grace Van
Montel Williams,
Billie Rosie Wood
Matthieu Chung
Tamara Depaula
Ruby Ebbs
Jordane Elliott
Khalil Forde
Sasha-Kaye Francis
Faruq Gafow
Tia Johnson
Keros Keen
Efua Lindsay
Dashiell Lorettclapp
Andrea Martin-Barsanti
Yolanda McGregor
Jake Miller
Nassim Nunes
Rajesh Parmar
Haameem Rahman
Emre Saygin
Keane Shaw
Jamal Sheridan
Keenan Smart
Isabella Smith
Djeny Tudila
St Raphael’s RC Primary School
Zade Al-bodier
Lauryn Alleyne-Coore
Sian Barry
Sam Batchelor
Mathiang Bol
Amy Duffy
Nuala Durkin
Joshua Feehan-Devine
Matthew Forsyth
Connie Gamble
Laura Gatu
Rishard Haddad
Amber Harper
Maciej Karwacki
Shanice Kearney
Casey Kelly
Jasmine Loh
Nathan Masterson
Jordan McGirr
Pierluigi Romano
Demmi Rose
Erick Sarkisian-Sazemani
Remarez Sheehan
Nathanial Smith-Joseph
Francesca Adu
Ewan Barry
George Black
Connor Callaghan
Amy Charlton
Sofia Cipolla
Ceara Dilworth
Rebecca Ebdon
Qananisa Faris
Tommy Fay
Jordann Gasper
Layla Godaz
Tyler Hawkesworth
Ostap Iltchichine
Ryan Irvine
Christian Johnson
Pawel Kordowski
Izabela Locman
Afra Malik
Kaze Morrison
Yonathan Negus Temesgen
Benjamin Phillips
Andreia Rodrigues
Ciaran Slevin
Liam Twomey
Stockwell Primary School
Liban Abdow Adan
Emily Abreu
Destiny Adeyemi
Cristiana Afonso Loureiro
Nabilah Ahmed
Fahima Akhtar
Fabio Alecrim
Bruno Alves
Santiago Angamarca Tandazo
Joao Pedro Baptista
Quadril Bisuga
Jezreel Blake-Gravesande
Alex Campos-John
Diogo Correia
Melanie Da Silva Pinto
Merhawi Daniel
Nikita Douglas
Erece Edwards
Riddick Fernandez Analuisa
Saul Flores Cuenca
Christina Graham
Natasha Hawthorne
Nadiyha Hazari
Jason Ho
Joao Paulo Jesus
Delice Lambu
Chelsio Lemos
Nadege Makengo
Carla Martins
Nicole Martins
Mateusz Matczak
Alex Mendes
Danna Mendez Borda
Aaliya Mohamed
Carlos Molina
Yewande Okusanya
Aishat Oluseye
Aaron Ormsby
Dominic Palmer
Mary-Kay Peart
Micah Pinnock
Wamiqur Rahman
Katie Ramos
Rabbi Rashid
Shaun Richards
Amina Roberts
Chaneka Salmon
Johnathan Satchell
James Silva
Savanna Sterling
El Afyouni Taha
Iestyn Thomas
Rian Wallace
Rachel Wong
St Joseph’s RC Primary School
Deborah Abebe
Nicole Adriano
Ese Aghedo
Jessica Akuoko
Bryan Amores
Nicolle Arroyave
Jack Bowers-Gurd
Carl Budd
Ana Carvalho
Lucia da Silva Simoes
Wilfred de Ley
Rafael Edrozo
Christabel Elabor
Charles Gyamfi
Carly Humphries
Venuse Ingabire
Auguste Koute
Kaya Lawrence
Trey Lawrence
Madeleine O’Connell-Littell
Shannon Payne
Natalia Perlik
Francesca Ramos
Ian Recalde
Jasmine Santarin
Jack Smith
Ashley Thompson
Peace Ughu
Liam Waller
Kimberly Yankey
Jael Abebe
Dashom Addo
Lawrence Alara
Kaya Alexander
Sebastian Aristizabal-Ruiz
Jean Arroyave
Agelo Beleno
Melanie Bernavides
Jonathan Berhe
Tyrhya Bishop
Emily Bustos Galindez
Malcolm Grocher
Tianna Ince
Jemima Morakinyo
Nicole Nwanji
John O’Reilly
Oluwatobi Omotayo
Fidelis Onwordi
Simon Orjuela-Perez
Rachel Quirke
Amar Saidik
Shaun Sevume
David Sigbi
Matthew Tabima-Cuervo
Norah Tapahusaco-Ortiz
Meron Tseggay
Kiara Vasconez
Priyanka Vasconez
Zoe Wegbe
Max Wilson
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CLOTHESBURGER
Overture (Allenby)
Errollyn Wallen
NARRATOR: There is a row of shops at the edge of town where birds can speak and where the air is so rarefied that you can do your homework in four and a quarter minutes because the special air is full of answers
and solutions to absolutely everything. Things like: Where is the other sock? Why did he ignore me in the corridor? What is the capital of Japan?
Allenby School
Piano
Allenby Magic Air
Allenby School
Pno.
Allenby School
Scene 1 (St Raphael’s)
NARRATOR: The Makeadin is a café for eight to eleven year olds to hang out. It’s on Wren Street behind a Superhero doll factory.Only amazing things happen at the Makeadin - like music-making, putting on shows, making films and everything that comes to mind. There you can eat your favourite food and hang out and talk to your friends.
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Scene 2 (Charlotte Sharman)
NARRATOR:
This is the story of two best friends, Trishi and Mick.
Lively h = c. 76
Clap
(continue clapping in own patterns while speaking)
Scene 3 (Havelock)
Bus Driver’s Song
NARRATOR: The journey took longer than they were expecting because an elderly gentleman sitting on top of the bus had a heart attack; he thought he’d seen a dinosaur flying overhead.
Havelock School
Bus Driver
Piano
With a swinging lilt
q = 84
HAVELOCK BUSES*
Verse 1: Buses 1
Verse 2: Buses 2
* use extra bars in accompaniment as needed for introduction
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they found an enormous crowd of kids outside.
Pno.
They stood shyly at the edge of the crowd and noticed that occasionally a bird or two would fly down for a little chat or to swap Tokilon cards (the latest craze) or new scales, trills, tunes or beats.
rall.
There was a lot of activity in the street outside the Makeadin cafethere were a few girls and boys playing keepy uppy and a pair of redheaded twins playing their recorder out of tune and bickering. A small band of cello-playing teenagers (trying to impress the eight to eleven year olds so they could get into Makeadin) were jumping on and off the kerb and three drummers were having a competition to see who could play the best fills. Two nine-year old girls were playing a hand-clapping song about plantain and rice and beans.
Suddenly, Bentu Cordery, the eleven year old manager and his staff, burst out of Makeadin.
(cross-fades from previous section)
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Makeadin Kids
Bentu Corderey
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NARRATOR: Well it was at just that moment that Trishi and Mick spotted a black Mercedes van hurtling round the corner at seventy miles an hour. It rocked onto one side as its tyres tore round the bend, bumping up onto the kerb
Urgent
and nearly knocking over a penguin who happened to be visiting her musical cousins in the rarefied air - she’d travelled
miles (from Regent’s Park Zoo) in order to swap bhangra tracks.
Four men in balaclavas jumped out of the van
and raced inside Makeadin, pushing children aside in their haste. They were brandishing ancient swords of fire.
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Trishi and Mick looked at each other, open-mouthed and reached into their backpacks for notebooks and pencils.
Trishi
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Pno.
In the commotion no-one saw Trishi and Mick sneak in behind the fire-brandishing men, no-one noticed that Trishi
stuck out her leg to trip the last of the gang over and no-one noticed that Mick pinned him to the floor inside the café
whilst the other gangsters ran ahead. As the ruffian kicked and thrashed, tossed and whacked, there came an almighty
cry - a blood-curdling, bloodthirsty, bloodlettingly terrible, fearful yodel-hiccupping cry
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which seemed to take the very roof off your head and the very pluck from your soul
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“What the...” began Trishi as she scrabbled to take notes in her stripey notebook. “What the...” began Mick as he accidentally let go of the ruffian’s hairy leg in the shock of it all. And that, my dears, is when the dinodragon hurtled through the roof. Singing.
ad lib: random glisses and crashes in note clusters from the top to the bottom of the piano
Jaunty q = c.
Scene 5 (Ivydale)
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NARRATOR: The dinosaur - Alfplucked Mick high into the
NARRATOR: Suddenly and perfunctorily, Alf dropped Mick when, eyes popping, he caught sight of Trishi’s pink sparkly top. Alf loved sparkly things even more than green buses. Without hesitation he swept the little girl into the air with his enormous tail then flicked her onto his nose so that Trishi faced down towards the city of fossils that was Alf’s eight rows of smelly teeth.
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NARRATOR: And with that the lurching, gigantic dinodragon gulped her clean down his slimy throat.
Makeadin Kids
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NARRATOR: There was silence for five whole seconds then Alf leaned his spiny-scaled head right back, shook it three times and, from the depths of his belly let out a massive, smelly belch..
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NARRATOR: ...he purred, wriggling his velociraptor-like clawed feet in satisfaction
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That’s when Mick, without thinking, overcome with fur as he was, ran up to the monster and screamed,
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NARRATOR: Mick pummelled the dinodragon continuously, hoping he’d sick up Trishi. The more Mick hit Alf, the more Alf shook and roared until the whole building shook and rolled and all the Makeadin
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Sad, slow and tenderq = c. 66
Everyone
Piano
6
Everyone
Pno.
Pno.
NARRATOR: Alf looked at the tears running down Mick’s face and sang a tender song:
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NARRATOR: Just as Alf came to the end of the last strains of his song the sound of crackling was heard as the fire from the ruffians
took hold of the ceiling of the Makeadin café.
Everyone screamed, including Alf
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and Bentu Corderey shouted:
Everyone
Bentu Corderey
Makeadin Staff Alf
Pno.
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shouted: Everyone get out of the the building
pandemonium as everyone runs for it
shouted: Head, head head for the nearest exit
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NARRATOR: And before Mick could say a word or close his mouth again, Alf hoisted Mick on his tail and flicked him so that the boy sat in the dark, crusty hollow domain of his claws
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NARRATOR: Alf flew
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Once he’d got his breath back, Mick looked down in amazement at all the rooftops below him.
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and made the birds blush with wonder
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But the fire didn’t die down. It raged and grew bigger and more and more fierce so that, even high up in the sky, Mick could feel his knees and shins becoming warmer and itchier. But, apart from the fire, there was something very strange going on outside the Makeadin.
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The five men who’d jumped from the van were waving excitedly up towards the sky and were. oh no, pointing what looked like guns straight at him, Mick!
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Scene 8 (Charlotte Sharman)
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NARRATOR: And with that, Trishi and Mick tried to run away. It seemed as
they were going from on nightmare to another. It had all gone so horribly wrong. Trishi had been eaten by a monster, Mick had been
by the smelly monster’s terrible flying and now they were back in the clutches of
the very gang they had tried to escape
from in the first place. Mick could feel hot tears welling up and,
as they started to trickle down his face, he thought, not
for the first time that day
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NARRATOR: Then the sound of gentle wiggling from the velociraptor-like clawed feet
Jovial q. = c. 86
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said to me. Right you are, I’ll be back with a sackful o’ sweets and battenburg cake
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And maybe we could have some bacon sarnies too? Ooh and some Twiglets!
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NARRATOR: And with that, Alf flew high into the sky wobbling ever so slightly (you could just about make out the shape of the men’s feet and arms through Alf’s belly) but with an enormous grin on his fangs. He’d made new friends. He’d made lovely, interesting, exciting and extravagantly talented new friends. And as if that weren’t enough, he’d even eaten the rare delicacy of real, live Clothesburgers. Alf gently wriggled his velociraptor-like clawed feet in memory. The Clothesburgers wriggled feverishly back.
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NARRATOR: Trishi and Alf had made new friends too, friends they thought hadn’t cared about
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noticed, thank goodness) for he was going
Makeadin
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twelve in February. But he knew that as long as he lived he would never forget his friends
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