Special Concert for the YoungSaturday, November 21 at 3:00 p.m. in the Cooper Recital Hall At the Steinway Piano Galley 13418 E. Nora Ave. (across I-90 from the Spokane Valley Mall) The Complete Tales of the Hibertoo by Joan Maude (aged 3), performed by Hannah Chapman-Dutton (age 11) (Joan Maude (1908-1998) came from a family of actors and theatre managers. She was the great granddaughter of Jenny Lind, acted in more than twenty films, and later was the first actress to play Oscar Wilde's Salomé.) 
The Selfish Giant, by Oscar Wilde, narrated by Steven Mortier
(The famous children's tale about a mean giant who is befriended by a young boy)Henry King, from Hillarie Belloc's Four Cautionary Tales & a Moral (1907) ("who chewed little bits of string, and was early cut off in dreadful agonies." ) 
Mustard and Cress, from the Songs for Little People by Norman Gale (Gale's poem about a girl named Elizabeth,
who is buried in a garden with herbs)accompaniments will be performed by Yi-chun Chen on the Henry Z. Steinway grand piano.
Tickets are $5 per person, and available from Allegro at (509) 455-6865;
or at the Steinway Piano Gallery, (509) 327-4266. Seating is limited to eighty people.
Henry KingWho chewed bits of String, and was early cut off in Dreadful Agonies
The Chief Defect of Henry KingWas chewing little bits of String. At last he swallowed some which tied Itself in ugly Knots inside. 
Physicians of the Utmost FameWere called at once; but when they came 
They answered, as they took their Fees,"There is no Cure for this Disease. Henry will very soon be dead." His Parents stood about his Bed Lamenting his Untimely Death, When Henry, with his Latest Breath, Cried— "Oh, my Friends, be warned by me, 
That Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch and TeaAre all the Human Frame requires ..." With that the Wretched Child expires. (Original illustrations by Basil Blackwood, 1907)
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