{"id":28320,"date":"2015-03-17T14:24:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=28320"},"modified":"2020-07-28T18:30:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T00:30:59","slug":"utah-symphony-presents-peter-and-the-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/utah-symphony-presents-peter-and-the-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Symphony Presents “Peter and the Wolf”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"peter<\/a>The Utah Symphony has brilliantly branded what they do as “classically charged.” They want you to see what they do as energetic, exciting, and new. But sometimes symphonic music is charged with being either boring (when it comes to the old, fuddy duddy stuff), or inaccessible (when it comes to new music that has no distinguishable melody). So how do you communicate music to an audience that might not understand it? How do you get families and children to engage with symphonic music? Make it about animals, of course! Oh, and play a movie in the background.<\/p>\n

On March 21st, the Utah Symphony will perform Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” on the big stage while the\u00a0Oscar-winning animated film\u00a0Peter & the Wolf (2006) plays on the big screen.<\/p>\n

In 1936,\u00a0Sergei Prokofiev\u00a0was commissioned by\u00a0the Central Children’s Theatre in Moscow to write a musical symphony for children. The intent was to cultivate “musical tastes in children from the first years of school”.\u00a0Prokofiev was so intrigued by the idea that he quickly went to work and completed\u00a0Peter and the Wolf\u00a0in just four days.<\/p>\n

Some of us are old enough to remember listening to the record of Peter and the Wolf as a child, following along with the story and paying attention to which musical theme belonged to each animal introduced in the story. Also on the program (in the spirit of animals) is\u00a0Daniel Dorff\u2019s Three Fun Fables, which is a suite of humorous Aesop tales: The Fox and the Crow, The Dog and his Reflection, and The Tortoise and the Hare.<\/p>\n

If you want to cultivate musical tastes in your children, this would be an excellent introduction for them into the symphonic world. And, to encourage their interest in the music, The Utah Symphony Youth Guild and Summerhays Music will be offering an “instrument petting zoo” in the lobby before and after the concerts.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, March 21
\n11 AM & 12:30 AM
\nAbravanel Hall
\nTickets:<\/a> $6 – $14<\/p>\n

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