Peter and the Wolf

Peter and the Wolf
2016
Concerts For Kids Series Sponsors
The Mary & Dr. George L.
Demetros Charitable Trust
Additional Support Provided By:
Concerts for Kids is a collaborative project of the Akron Symphony Orchestra
and the Akron Symphony Guild along with Magical Theatre Company.
Special thanks to
Matt Buchanan, Cartoonist and Illustrationist
Barb White, Akron-Summit County Public Library
Renee Pipitone, Jim Zwisler
Akron Symphony Staff who contributed to the resource packet:
Jacob Sustaita, Fran Goldman, Orzella Matherson and Sharon Smith
Preparing for the Concert Experience
Before the concert …
Read and look at books, magazines, or programs about orchestras
Look for musicians and musical instruments
Listen to recordings of music and listen for different instrument sounds
Pretend you are the music director or one of the musicians
Do some of the activities in this guide before the concert
Get your items ready to bring to the concert
Be sure to bring them with you!
For the concert …
Be sure to arrive early enough to get ready for the music
Sit on the floor with your group of other kids, parents, or teachers
Look for the musicians and their instruments
Listen as they get ready for the concert
During the concert …
Enjoy the music!
Be ready to join in if the maestro wants you to do something
Until then stay seated so others behind you can see, too
Things to listen for …
Instruments playing loud, soft, slow, or fast
Hear how different the instruments sound
Familiar melodies or sounds
Things to look for …
Watch the musicians as they play
Watch the way the conductor moves and directs
Look for what the musicians may do with their instruments
Look for how they make their instruments make different sounds
Clap for the orchestra so they’ll know that you liked it!
After the concert …
Tell your friends, parents and teachers about the concert
Listen to recordings of the music over and over again
Ask your parents or teachers to help you send a message to the musicians
Plan to attend another Akron Symphony concert!
The Program
AKRON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
CHRISTOPHER WILKINS, MUSIC DIRECTOR
CONCERTS FOR KIDS
JACOB SUSTAITA, CONDUCTOR
MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY
May 10-First Congregational Church, Hudson
May 11 - First Congregational Church, Hudson
May 12- Lake Anna YMCA, Barberton
May 13 - City of Joy Enrichment Center, Akron
May 14 - The House of the Lord, Akron
May 16 - Temple Israel, Montrose
John Henry
Down by the Station (Sing-A-Long)
Aaron Copland
Traditional
Peter and the Wolf
Sergei Prokofiev
Take the A-Train
Billy Strayhorn
arr. Victor Lopez
Welcome
Welcome to the Akron Symphony’s Concerts for Kids.
You will find that a trip to the Symphony is a lot of fun. You will hear sounds, a story,
instruments, and actors.
The packet has information about what you can expect to see, hear and learn at the
concert. There are also activities and a list of books that you can find at the library to
learn more.
We hope you enjoy the concert and maybe we will see you again at the Symphony!
Program Goals
The program will address the following standards-based arts learning experience from the Head
Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework:
DOMAIN / INDICATORS
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Attends to language
during conversations, songs, stories or other learning
experiences. Understands vocabulary.
HOW THIS IS ADDRESSED IN
CONCERTS FOR KIDS
STORY: Peter and the Wolf
CONVERSATION: Maestro’s comments
VOCABULARY: Orchestra, conductor, strings,
woodwinds, brass, percussion, names of instruments
CREATIVE ARTS EXPRESSION / MUSIC
The use of voice and instruments to create sounds. Participates in music activities, such as listening, singing or
performing
The concert experience, musicians voluntarily
going out into the audience to demonstrate
instruments, class discussions after the concert
experience, listening to CDs
ENGAGEMENT IN ENGLISH LITERACY ACTIVITIES
Understanding and responding to books, storytelling
and songs presented in English
Teaching packet, bibliography of books about
music, orchestras, wolves
DRAMA – The portrayal of events, characters or stories Dramatization of story by actors
through activity and using props and language
MATHEMATICS - Determine if two shapes are the
same size and shape, match, sort, put in a series
Different sizes of instruments, families of instruments
APPROACHES TO LEARNING – PERSISTANCE &
ATTTENTIVENESS
The ability to begin and finish activities with persistence and attention, maintain concentration.
Attendance and behavior at the concert, ability to
complete activities in resource packet.
The Orchestra
The symphony orchestra is made up of four families of instruments. The number of musicians varies according to
the requirements of the composer. There may be as few as 40 players or as many as 100 or more musicians on
stage.
The String Family is made up of the violin, viola, cello and bass. The sound of the string instruments is made
when the player moves the bow over the strings or plucks the strings (called pizzicato.) The basic difference between
the members of this family is the size of the instrument. The larger the instrument, the lower the sound.
The Woodwind Family usually consists of pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets and bassoons. Other members include
the piccolo, English Horn, bass clarinet, contrabassoon and saxophone. Clarinets and saxophones have a single
reed and mouthpiece while oboes and bassoons have a double reed and no mouthpiece.
The Brass Family Brass instruments have a cup-shaped mouthpiece. The player vibrates his lips into the mouthpiece to produce the sound. The modern orchestra brass section includes horns, trumpets, trombones and tuba.
The Percussion Family is made up of instruments that make a sound by shaking or striking one object with
another. The timpani is the most important percussion instrument in the orchestra. There are many instruments in
this family, including drums, cymbals, gongs and mallet instruments such as xylophone and marimba.
Peter and the Wolf Characters
Sergei Prokofiev wrote Peter and the Wolf in 1936 to introduce young people to the instruments of the orchestra. The
characters in the story are represented by an instrument and a musical theme.
Bird - flute
Cat - clarinet
Duck - oboe
Grandfather - bassoon
Hunters - woodwind and trumpet theme, with gunshots on timpani and bass drum
Peter - string instruments (including violin, viola, cello and bass)
Wolf - horns
Listening Map
Prokofiev’s Original Story
Early one morning, Peter opened the gate
and walked out into the big green meadow.
On a branch of a big tree sat a little bird,
Peter's friend. "All is quiet" chirped the bird
happily.
Just then a duck came waddling round. She
was glad that Peter had not closed the gate
and decided to take a nice swim in the deep
pond in the meadow.
Seeing the duck, the little bird flew down upon on the grass, settled next to her and
shrugged his shoulders. "What kind of bird
are you if you can't fly?" said he. To this the
duck replied "What kind of bird are you if you
can't swim?" and dived into the pond.
They argued and argued, the duck swimming
in the pond and the little bird hopping along
the shore.
Suddenly, something caught Peter's attention. He noticed a cat crawling through the
grass.
The cat thought; "That little bird is busy arguing, I'll just grab him. Stealthily, the cat crept
towards him on her velvet paws.
"Look out!" shouted Peter and the bird immediately flew up into the tree, while the duck
quacked angrily at the cat, from the middle of
the pond. The cat walked around the tree
and thought, "Is it worth climbing up so
high? By the time I get there the bird will
have flown away."
Just then grandfather came out. He was upset because Peter had gone in the meadow.
"It's a dangerous place. If a wolf should
come out of the forest, then what would you
do?"
But Peter paid no attention to his grandfather's words. Boys like him are not afraid of
wolves.
But grandfather took Peter by the hand, led
him home and locked the gate.
Character
Music Cue
Listening Map continued
No sooner had Peter gone, than a big grey
wolf came out of the forest.
In a twinkling the cat climbed up the tree.
The duck quacked, and in her excitement
jumped out of the pond. But no matter how
hard the duck tried to run, she couldn't escape the wolf. He was getting nearer, nearer,
catching up with her. Then he got her, and
with one gulp, swallowed her.
And now, this is how things stood: the cat
was sitting on one branch, the bird on another . . . not too close to the cat. And the wolf
walked around and around the tree, looking
at them with greedy eyes.
In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest
fear, stood behind the closed gate watching
all that was going on. He ran home, got a
strong rope, and climbed up the high stone
wall.
One of the branches of the tree, around
which the wolf was walking, stretched out
over the wall.
Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly
climbed over on to the tree. Peter said to the
bird: "Fly down and circle over the wolf's
head. Only take care that he doesn't catch
you."
The bird almost touched the wolf's head with
his wings while the wolf snapped angrily at
him, from this side and that.
How the bird worried the wolf! How he wanted to catch him! But the bird was clever, and
the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
Meanwhile, Peter made a lasso and carefully
letting it down, caught the wolf by the tail and
pulled with all his might.
Feeling himself caught, the wolf began to
jump wildly trying to get loose.
Listening Map continued
But Peter tied the other end of rope to the
tree, and the wolf's jumping only made the
rope around his tail tighter.
Just then, the hunters came out of the
woods, following the wolf's trail and shooting
as they went.
ww, strings, perc
But Peter, sitting in the tree, said: "Don't
shoot! Birdie and I have already caught the
wolf. Now help us take him to the zoo."
And now, imagine the triumphant procession:
Peter at the head; after him the hunters leading the wolf;
and winding up the procession, grandfather
and the cat. Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
the wolf? What then?"
Full Orchestra
Above them flew Birdie chirping merrily. "My,
what brave fellows we are, Peter and I! Look
what we have caught!"
And if one would listen very carefully, he
could hear the duck quacking inside the wolf;
because the wolf in his hurry, had swallowed
her alive.
Activities - Mot Buchanan, Cartooner and Illustrationist
Activities
ACTIVITY: PETER AND THE WOLF
Read the story of Peter and the Wolf. Listen
to a recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and
the Wolf. Act out the story while you listen.
When you hear the OBOE, pretend to be
a DUCK. Waddle and quack! The OBOE
describes the DUCK!
When you hear the CLARINET pretend to
be a CAT. Purr and meow, tip toe and leap!
The Clarinet describes the CAT!
When you hear the FLUTE pretend to be
a BIRD. Flap your wings, chirp and fly
around! The FLUTE describes the BIRD!
OBOE
CLARINET
FLUTE
Activities
1. Go to your library and check out train books to read to your children.
The Little Engine That Could
Thomas The Train
The Polar Express
2. Use small boxes, short cardboard tubes, egg cartons, paper plates and thread spools to
create a train. Make tracks on the floor with masking tape.
3. Supply each child with an empty plastic soda bottle. Invite the children to decorate the
bottle however they wish with stickers or glue on paper etc. To make the whistle sound,
blow across the bottle's opening. Have the children blow all at once and pretend to be a
train.
4. CHUGA! CHUGA! TOOT! TOOT! RHYTHM WALK
Trains make their own music with rhythm. Let’s go for a walk and listen for other things
that make music through rhythm.
People walking.
Cars going over a bump in the road.
A dog barking.
A squeaky wheel.
A lawn mower, leaf blower, weed whacker.
Someone humming, singing, whistling.
A song on a car radio.
The leaves moving in the breeze.
An insect chirping.
A bird’s whistle.
A train!
A child playing.
Take this list with you on your walk. Check off the things you hear. Add some of your own.
After your Rhythm Walk, talk about what you heard and draw pictures of the things you saw
that had rhythm
View more ideas for train-themed activities at - http://www.everythingpreschool.com/
themes/trains/
Activities
Learn to Sing DOWN BY THE STATION
Down by the station
Early in the morning
See the little pufferbellies
All in a row
See the station master
Turn the little handle
Chug chug puff puff
Off they go
(same tune as Itsy Bitsy Spider)
Listen on YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDvmZMsQm-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRV-797awEQ
Resources
Peter and the Wolf
A Selected List of Multi-Media Resources
The following is a collection of materials that have been recommended by the Akron-Summit County
Public Library to enhance the concert experience for your child or class.
Telling the Story of Peter and the Wolf
Beck, Ian. Peter and the Wolf. Atheneum. 1995.
Lemieux, Michele. Peter and the Wolf. Morrow. 1991.
Raschka, Chris. Peter and the Wolf. Atheneum. 2008.
Schulman, Janet. Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. Knopf. 2004.
Vagin, Vladimir. Peter and the Wolf. Scholastic. 2000.
All About the Orchestra and Music-Making
Costanza, Stephen. Vivaldi and the Invisible Orchestra. Holt. 2012.
Manders, John. Really Awful Musicians. Clarion. 2011.
Millman, Isaac. Moses Goes to a Concert. Farrar. 1998.
Pinkney, Brian. Max Found Two Sticks. Simon & Schuster. 1994.
Sharratt, Nick. The Animal Orchestra. Candlewick. 1997.
Turner, Barbara J. Out and About the Orchestra. Picture Window. 2003.
Williams, Sheron. Imani’s Music. Atheneum. 2002.
All About Wolves
Catalano, Dominic. Wolf Plays Alone. Philomel. 1992.
Dornhoffer, Mary K. Wolves. Compass Point. 2004.
George, Jean Craighead. Look to the North: A Wolf Pup Diary. HarperCollins. 1997.
Machado, Ana Maria. Wolf Wanted. Groundwood. 2010.
Marsh, Laura F. Wolves. National Georgraphic. 2012.
Ripple, William J. Wolves. Capstone. 2005.
Resources
All About Trains
Big Book of Trains. Another super DK publication loved by young readers for its great photos of locomotives,
cars, tunnels, stations, and more. (See also: John Coiley’s Train from the Eyewitness series.)
Crews, Donald. Freight Train. Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through
tunnels, by cities, and over trestles.
Johnson, Angela. I Dream of Trains. The son of a sharecropper dreams of leaving Mississippi on a train with
the legendary engineer Casey Jones.
Klingel, Cynthia and Noyed, Robert B. Trains. An early Reader for train enthusiasts and lovers of non-fiction.
Lester, Julius. John Henry. Terrific retelling of the life of the legendary African-American hero who races,
among other things, a steam drill as it cuts through a mountain.
Piper, Walter. The Little Engine That Could. When the other engines refuse, the Little Blue Engine tries to pull
a stranded train full of toys and good food over the mountain.
Siebert, Diane. Train Song. Rhymed text and illustrations describe the journey of a trans-continental train.
Sturges, Philemon. I Love Trains! Simple text and bright bold illustrations convey the excitement of the book’s
title.
Walker, Pamela. Train Rides. The “train experience”—from boarding to arrival!
Wormell, Christopher. Puff, Puff, Chugga-Chugga. Here comes the little train—but just how much can a train
that size hold?
Resources
On CD and DVD at your Library:
Websites About Music and Orchestras
Make sure to get your parents’ approval and help with these fun and interactive websites!
http://www.nyphilkids.org
This site sponsored by the New York Philharmonic has activities that include walking through an
interactive instrument storage room, creating your own music, making your own instrument from
everyday household items, and playing an instrument matching game!
http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/explore and_learn/
art_online_resources_listening_adventures.html
The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall has created an interactive game. Join Violet as she
embarks on an instrument safari, guided by her Uncle Ollie, collecting all the instruments of the
orchestra to the accompaniment of Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.
http://www.dsokids.com
Learn about composers, musical instruments, and music theory through fun online games at the
Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s website. Games include Music Match, Beethoven’s Baseball and Time
Machine.
http://www.sfskids.org
Visit the San Francisco Symphony’s kids section to hear clips of each instrument in the orchestra.
You can also create your own music.
Use the space below to draw a picture of your favorite part of the concert.