Which musical instrument depicts the bird in Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’?
Make Mine Music rotoscoped live-action ballet dancers, David Lichine and Tania Riabouchinskaya, moving in silhouette with animated backgrounds and characters. Dinah Shore sang the title song. This segment was an animated dramatization of the 1936 musical composition by Sergei Prokofiev, with narration by actor Sterling Holloway. A Russian boy named Peter sets off into the forest to hunt the wolf with his animal friends: a bird named Sascha, a duck named Sonia, and a cat named Ivan. Just like in Prokofiev's piece, each character is represented with a specific musical accompaniment: Peter by the String Quartet, Sascha by the Flute, Sonia by the
Peter and the Wolf his hurry had swallowed her alive." Prokofiev produced detailed performance notes in both English and Russian for "Peter and the Wolf". According to the English version: "Peter and the Wolf" is scored for the following orchestra: Each character in the story has a particular instrument and a musical theme: A performance lasts about 25 minutes. According to an article by Jeremy Nicholas for the classical music magazine "Gramophone" in 2015, the best overall recording of "Peter and the Wolf" is by the New Philharmonia Orchestra, narrated by Richard Baker and conducted by Raymond Leppard in 1971. "Gramophone"s best DVD version