The Family Popcorn Concert

FREE POPCORN!

The Lewisville Lake Symphony

and The LakeCities Ballet present

Sergei Prokofiev’s
Peter and the Wolf

Narrated by Chip Waggoner of Fox 4

Sunday March 7, 2010 at 3:00 pm

Chip Waggoner

Frederick P. Herring Recreation Center (formerly known as
Civic Circle Recreation Center)

 191 Civic Circle, Lewisville TX 75067
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+) $15, Children $8
Family Special $35 (no matter how large the family!)
 

Peter: Amanda Evans
Wolf: Morgan Edgerton
Bird: Kendall Galey
Duck: Laine Habony
Cat: Madison McKay
Grandfather: Katie Russell
Hunters: Melissa Mowery, Molly Flynn, Kelsey Rhinehelder, Bridget Polei

Music Director/Conductor:  Adron Ming

Narrator: Chip Waggoner

Choreography: Kelly Lannin
Staging: Janet Waters
Costumes: Carla Mowery
Makeup: Nancy Loch
Sets: Tom Rutherford

Sponsored by

Parks and Recreation Department

Build your own instrument workshop

Instrument Petting Zoo!

Kids can try out musical instruments with the help of Symphony volunteers

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.

Performance pictures by Nancy Loch

Every story needs a story teller.  Chip Waggoner, Fox 4 airborne Traffic Watch Reporter is the narrator. 

This story is so big it needs an orchestra to help the storyteller

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.

Peter's adventure takes place in a meadow, territory forbidden by his grandfather, a grumpy bassoon.

There is also a cat, a clarinet, stalking in the grass,

Some hunters (drums) arrive a little late after Peter and his friends have already captured the wolf

And then there's the wolf baring its teeth to menacing horns!

  Grandpa and his bassoon finally meet at the end of the concert.

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

Pics:  Ian Cleghorn

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.  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.

The Lewisville Lake Symphony believes children should experience great music as early as possible.  When to start playing? Click here. 

Pic: Duane Johnson