Children's concert "Peter and the Wolf"
On 20 and 21 September 2021 and on 8 April 2022, both at 9.30 am at the Municipal Music School, Gerichtsstraße 1
The most requested and probably most popular concert for children, "Peter and the Wolf" by Sergei Prokofiev, is once again on the programme of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra. The Municipal Music School invites nursery school children and school classes from years 1 and 2 to the concert hall of the music school, Gerichtsstraße 1, on Monday and Tuesday, 20 and 21 September 2021 and on 8 April 2022 at 9.30 am. Admission costs 6 euros. Tickets are available at: baldauf(at)theater-chemnitz.de.
The concert lasts approx. 55 minutes. The Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra will be joined by Edgar Schilling and Andreas Weber as narrators and Mechthild Reichel and Heike Vieth as presenters.
Before the actual concert begins in the hall of the Municipal Music School, all the instruments and their familiar motifs are introduced and familiarised with. In most cases, the children already know which figure or instrument is involved and are allowed to say this out loud.
Sergei Prokofiev, born in 1891, created a musical fairy tale in his 1936 work "Peter and the Wolf", which is highly exciting and thrilling and at the same time imparts a great deal of knowledge about orchestral instruments and their tonal language almost unnoticed.
"There was a lively demand for children's pieces at the time, and this prompted me to compose a symphonic tale for children, 'Peter and the Wolf' (op. 67), for which I wrote the text myself. Each character in the story was given his own motif, which was always played by the same instrument. ... The text was read aloud when the music paused; it was very short, because for me it was just a means of getting the children to listen to the music." Sergei Prokofiev from Sergei Prokofiev, From My Life, Zurich/St. Gallen 1993