![]() ![]() I had a very, very strict and traditional musical upbringing, and then I had puberty, which wrecked my career as a boy soprano. And then I was also a member of the San Francisco Boys Chorus growing up, which performed with the opera and with the symphony and all sorts of classical opportunities. And classical music was the only music that I heard for many, many years. "My parents met at the opera, met at a performance of the opera. It's a mystery - the composer is dead - and so we like to say it's like Peter and the Wolf meets an episode of Law and Order."Īuthor Interviews The Real Lemony Snicket ach section of the orchestra demonstrates its sonic color and is also interrogated. Stookey, 'Why don't we do something that could actually introduce the instruments to young people, but isn't as really a boring a story as Peter and the Wolf?' And so from that The Composer Is Dead was born. a performance of Peter and the Wolf, and the music is beautiful, and the story is insipid. On how Peter and the Wolf inspired Handler's new opera with composer Nathaniel Stookey I think children are less embarrassed to go look up the truth." ![]() And then you just start using it however it feels right. "You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means. ![]() You could have a detective and a mysterious young girl who are birds of a feather and who can't stand one another, and who are unapologetic about making their way in a world that seems to have no place for them." I think it's what draws them together, and also what makes them fight. "They're both confined by their circumstances," he says, "and they're both making their own moral path through a world that is sinister and secretive. But then he had an epiphany that freed him from this worry: In noir, he realized, the detective and the femme fatale are doing the exact same thing. Handler tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that initially, he had concerns about writing in a noir style for younger readers, not least because of the central role of the genre's femme fatale characters and their sexualized personas. While the Unfortunate Events books play with ideas about gothic literature, All the Wrong Questions explores detective-noir conventions. It tracks the young Snicket's adventures during his apprenticeship at the V.F.D., a mysterious organization that readers familiar with the Snicket stories will recognize. The book is the first of a series - All the Wrong Questions - and a prequel to A Series of Unfortunate Events. Now Handler has revived the Snicket narrator in his YA novel Who Could That Be at This Hour? It's been more than six years since Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, concluded his enormously popular 13-volume young adult series, A Series of Unfortunate Events. He has also penned several books for adults under his own name. Daniel Handler wrote A Series of Unfortunate Events under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket. ![]()
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