Popcorn 05

Grownups (18+), $10, Children $5
Family Special $25 (no matter how large the family!)

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Lewisville Lake Symphony
Adron Ming Music Director/Conductor
LakeCities Ballet Theatre
Kelly Kilburn-Lannin, Artistic Director

Peter - Lauren Schafer

Wolf - Steven Loch

Bird - Sarah Johnson

Cat - Taylor Kopp

Duck - Sarah Eggleston

Grandfather - Tom Rutherford

Hunters - Nicole Votolato, Danielle Manis,

Morgan Edgerton, Nicole Collins

Conductor Adron Ming, the Lewisville Lake Symphony, Chip Waggoner from Fox 4 and the LakeCities Ballet tell Sergei Prokofiev’s cunning tale at the Family Popcorn Concert. Children and grown-ups of all ages have a fine time finding out if Peter and his friends can outsmart that wolf and, it just so happens, learn a few musical things along the way.

The kids get the best seats. 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.

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.

Each character in the story, told by a narrator, is represented by a tune and instrument. Peter is a young boy, his signature tune being a cheerfully whistling theme in the strings. He has an adventure in a meadow, territory forbidden by his grandfather (a grumpy bassoon). There is also a cat (a clarinet) stalking in the grass, a duck (quacking oboe) a bird (agile flute) and some hunters (drums). And of course a wolf, baring its teeth to menacing horns. Peter ends up catching the wolf with the help of his animal friends, and a triumphant procession ends with grandfather still complaining.

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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