Klarinet Archive - Posting 000019.txt from 2003/01

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Peter and the Wolf ballet?
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 07:09:15 -0500

--- "John P. Varineau" <jvarineau@-----.com> wrote:

> Even if you own the parts, you are responsible for paying the performing
> royalties. And if you should to want to stage Peter and the Wolf with a
> ballet company, you are responsible for what are known as "Grand Rights"
> -- amounting to thousands of dollars.

Boy, I feel silly. Peter and the Wolf is a ballet? (go easy) I've performed the narrated
orchestral version several times, and always thought to myself that it would lend itself nicely to
a choreographed production -- especially when the opening to the work (Peter's theme, following
the initial narration) starts with the exact same rhythm as the overture to The Nutcracker (albeit
a little more legato from Prokofiev as opposed staccato from Tchaikovsky). Whenever I hear that
rhythm, I think ballet (probably because my mother took me and my brothers to the San Francisco
Ballet's Nutcracker every Christmas for ten years straight).

Neat stuff.

Neil

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