Sleepovers are so fun.
So last weekend, apart from girl talk, watching a chick flick (while munching on grapes and wasabi peas) and chatting about our favourite book titles, my friend and I decided to read/listen to this crazy whodunit book/narration.
THE COMPOSER IS DEAD by Lemony Snicket.
So.. the composer is DEAD and the reader needs to figure out who killed the composer.
But this book is more than your everyday children's mystery book (it even had a twist we didn't see coming!). And it cleverly and cunningly introduces young children *cough* to the various sections in an orchestra (if I came across this book earlier, maybe I would have hated theory less and maybe remembered all the composers and which periods they belonged to a little bit better).
You're meant to read the book with the audio accompaniment featuring Lemony Snicket as the narrator and the Nathaniel Stookey's music performed by the San Francisco Symphony.
Some people might find it a bit too odd for their liking, but we loved Lemony Snicket's witty wordplay and Stookey's music! This was my favourite pun!!:
".. the Composer was not muttering. He was not humming. He was not moving, or even breathing. This is called decomposing (and we're shown a humongous menacing-looking blue-bottle fly)"
So who killed the composer? Was it the string section? Brass? Woodwind? Percussionists?
Section by section - the sections give the stern, 'very handsome and intelligent' inspector their alibis riddled with Lemony Snicket's dry humour. e.g., the Brass section claimed that they were too brassy to think of killing the composer! -_-
If you're curious this video has snippets of the audio recording but it contains spoilers too :D
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