Klarinet Archive - Posting 000020.txt from 2003/01

From: Stacy-Michelle <clarinetistvibe@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Peter and the Wolf ballet?
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:13:42 -0500

Yesterday on the Classic Arts Showcase (the MTV or VH1
of the arts world I guess) They showed a ballet
performance of "Peter and the Wolf". Until then, I
didn't know it existed either.

--- Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com> wrote:
> --- "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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Stacy-Michelle Valentine
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClassicallyBlack

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