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The Family Popcorn Concert
FREE POPCORN!
The Lewisville Lake
Symphony and
The LakeCities Ballet
present
Sergei Prokofiev’s
Peter and the Wolf
Sunday March xx, 2009
at 3:pm


Civic Circle Recreation Center,
191 Civic Circle
From I-35: Exit Main Street and head West. Turn Right on Civic Circle. 2
blocks on the right (across from Post Office)
click for map
Grownups (18+), $10, Children $5
Family Special $25 (no matter how large the family!)
Build your own instrument
workshop
Instrument Petting
Zoo!
Kids can try out musical
instruments with the help of Symphony volunteers
Sponsored by
Parks and Recreation Department

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Performance pictures by Nancy
Loch
The kids get the best seats at the Popcorn Concert. They can park themselves on the gym mats up
front. Parents have to make do with the bleacher seats. However, no
matter were you sit, the popcorn is on the house.
Before the
story begins, members of the Lewisville Lake Symphony show the sounds
made by each group of instruments.
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Every story needs a story teller.
Chip
Waggoner,
Fox 4 airborne Traffic Watch Reporter is the narrator.
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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.
His
friends include a bird, an agile flute, that can't swim and a duck, a
quacking oboe, that can't fly.
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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, a clarinet, stalking in the
grass,
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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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And then there's the wolf baring its teeth to
menacing horns! |
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Grandpa and his bassoon finally meet at the end of the concert.


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After the
concert, volunteers and members of the orchestra help audience
members try out instruments in the Petting Zoo.




Pics: Diana McMillin, Duane
Johnson, Ian Cleghorn
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Sergei Prokofiev
In 1936 Prokofiev took his two sons to the Moscow Children's Music
Theatre. Perhaps they were a bit fidgety, because 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 and 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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The
Lewisville Lake Symphony believes children should experience great
music as early as possible.

Pic: Duane Johnson
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