Le Rossignol

Getting into his grandfathers pottery workship at night a little boy finds an unusually large vase Fascinated the child feels the stillwarm material which whether by a miracle ot the hand of a magician who knows at once changes into a magnificent piece of Chinese porcelain Presently from behind the great blueenamelled trees there appears a fisherman in his sampan Thats how the story of The Nightingale told all in music begins as the waking dream of a child in the land of Chinese art and of mobile phones and webcams