The Charming Flute feat. Amy Hargreaves

Circle Round

WBUR

Ages 4-10, Children, Storytelling, Kids & Family, Childrens' Story, Books, Stories For Kids, Kids, Storytime, Story

4.4 • 14.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In part four of our summer series with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Amy Hargreaves (13 Reasons Why, Homeland) plays a mystical flute player who teaches a greedy landowner to sing a different tune.

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0:00.0	Calling all circle round fans, we're starting something brand new.
0:05.7	A club for listeners like you.
0:08.5	You can now join the Circle Round Club and enjoy a bunch of new, fun and exciting ways to circle around with us.
0:16.0	Club memberships come in all shapes and sizes.
0:19.0	You can find the one that's right for you and your family at wbur.org slash Circle Round Club.
0:31.0	Produced by the iLap at wbur Boston.
0:39.0	Do you have a favorite instrument?
0:42.0	If so, how does hearing that instrument make you feel?
0:46.0	Happy? Calm? Maybe it just makes you want to get up and dance.
0:51.0	And today's story will hear about an instrument with a sound so powerful.
0:56.0	It teaches one man to sing a very different tune.
1:06.0	I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round.
1:09.0	Where story time happens all the time.
1:11.0	Today our story is called the Charming Flute.
1:15.0	It was inspired by tales told among the weekers, a Turkic speaking people from Central Asia.
1:23.0	Some really great people came together to bring you our adaptation of this folktale, including Amy Hargraves.
1:29.0	grownups you might know Amy from Homeland on Showtime, as well as the HitNetflix series 13 Reasons Why.
1:36.0	The story concludes our special summer series with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with musical accompaniment by Flutist Elizabeth Ostling.
1:44.0	So Circle Round everyone for the Charming Flute.
1:53.0	The Charming Flute.
2:01.0	There once was a woman named Anastasia.
2:04.0	Anastasia had very little in the world, other than the clothing she wore, and the flute she played.
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