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'The Cricket on the Hearth'
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10 unexpected ways Charles Dickens was connected to classical music
5. 'The Cricket on the Hearth'
Dickens’s sentimental Christmas tale inspired a 1914 operetta by the Scottish composer Sir Alexander Mackenzie. Its overture starts with a kettle coming to the boil, the first line of the story being, ‘The kettle began it!’.
