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Pops Series Sponsored by the City
of Lewisville
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Sergei Prokofiev’s
Peter and the Wolf
Sunday February 26, 2012 at 3:00 pm
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Frederick P.
Herring
Recreation
Center,
Lewisville.
From I-35E: Exit Main Street and head West. Turn Right on Civic Circle.
2 blocks on the right (across from Post Office)
Map
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Grownups (18+)
$15,
Children $8
Book
online |
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Children:
Bring your parents and grandparents. They will have a great time too! |
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  Plus the "Build
your Own Instrument" workshop!
Plus the Instrument
Petting Zoo!
Kids can try out musical instruments
with the help of Symphony volunteers
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 Pictures
by Nancy Loch
Every good tale needs a
skilled story teller.
Chip Waggoner,
Fox 4
Traffic Watch
Reporter tells
this one. |
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This story is so big it needs an orchestra to help the storyteller. |
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And
not just an orchestra; it needs dancers too.
Each character
is represented
by a tune and
instrument.
Peter, a young
boy, is
represented by a
cheerfully
whistling theme
in the strings. |
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Peter's adventure takes place in a meadow, territory forbidden by his
grandfather, a grumpy bassoon |
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There is also a cat stalking in the
grass, a bird that can't swim and a duck that can't fly. They are
represented by a clarinet, a flute and an oboe. |
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And then there's the wolf baring its teeth to
menacing horns! |
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Some hunters
(drums) arrive a
little late
after Peter and
his friends have
already captured
the wolf. |
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Peter and the
Wolf
Music
Director/Conductor:
Adron
Ming
Narrator: Chip
Waggoner
Choreography: Kelly Lannin
Staging: Janet
Waters
Peter: Jeanette
Lipton
The Wolf: Ruben
Gerding
The Bird:
Kendall Galey
The Cat: Logan
Lockhart
The Duck: Sophie
Van Den Handel
The Grandfather:
Carlie Derrick
The Hunters:
Morgan Edgerton,
Madeline Smithers,
Mika Vera,
Lauren Schafer |
The Lewisville
Lake Symphony
musicians:
Strings:
(Peter):
Violin 1 -
Jennifer Griffin
(Concertmaster),
Tonda Sykes,
Linda Proch,
Sarah
Carmichael;
Violin 2:
Mary Havenstrite,
Marsha Hellum;
Viola:
Jennifer
Sweetman, Michelle Gasworth
Cello: Dan
Lewis, Brian
Sague
Bass:
David Shaw
French Horn
(Wolf):
Daniel Serrago,
Chrystal Stevens,
Tim Stevens
Trumpet: Bert
Truax
Trombone:
Jon Bohls
Flute
(Bird):
Darby Gay
Clarinet
(Cat):
Ken Krause
Oboe
(Duck):
Sally Bohls
Bassoon
(Grandfather):
Charlie Hall
Drums
(Hunters):
Percussion -
David Elias;
Timpani - Steve
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Sergei
Prokofiev
In 1936
Prokofiev took
his two sons to
the Moscow
Children's Music
Theatre. Because
they were a bit
bored and
fidgety, he
decided to write
a light-hearted
piece that would
introduce
children to the
instruments and
sounds of the
orchestra.
'Peter and the
Wolf' was the
result, and it
has proved to be
a genuine
favorite of kids
and adults ever
since.
Art in Stalin's
Russia was
required to
serve the State
and subjected to
careful
governmental
scrutiny. Peter
represents the
ideal Soviet
Pioneer Youth so
the piece was
readily
approved. The
censors,
fortunately, did
not see the
hunters as
government
commissars
arriving on the
scene a day late
and a ruble
short. Prokofiev
got away with
the joke.
Gradually,
however, the
authorities,
including the
KGB, made his
life
increasingly
difficult
because he
showed
insufficient
public
enthusiasm and
too much private
hatred for the
Stalinist
regime. Stalin
outlasted him --
but only by 55
minutes. They
died on the same
day in 1953.
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After the concert, volunteers and members of the orchestra help
audience members try out instruments in the Petting Zoo. 
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