I'd love to hear Bellowhead work out a version of Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale. Instrumentation is quite similar although only a septet. I mentioned this to Brendan very briefly at the merch stall at Pontardawe, he didn't laugh or fall over. It wouldn't go well on a normal gig though.
Great idea. I MD'ed and percussed in a puppetry version at the Southwark Playhouse and BAC back in 2000. Andy played trumpet. We'd have to keep the bassoon and double bass - they're pretty key to the balance of the ensemble (and even if we did want to re-orchestrate them it's still under copyright, and in my experience publishers are notoriously sniffy about letting people mess with the great opuses of their composers, unless you soothe their conscience with wads of cash). But it's a piece that works best roughshod, as tiny Igor envisaged it, rather than in a concert hall with a conductor and a celeb narrator - a shoe-in for us then!
