Traditional
The Ant and the Grasshopper
A fable from Ancient Greece
The Ant And The Grasshopper, told by Alex Kanefsky
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Story
During the summer season, a grasshopper sings happily whilst an ant works hard to collect food for the winter. Eventually, the winter comes and the grasshopper realises he has no food. He begs the ant to share his food with him, but the ant has other ideas…
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Why we chose it
One of Aesop’s best known fables its seemingly straightforward moral (a time for work and a time for play) can lend itself to deeper discussion about the role of art and music.