[78-L] Peter and the wolf [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

--- On Mon, 1/5/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Peter and the wolf
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Monday, January 5, 2009, 7:42 PM
> DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> > My first recording of Peter and the Wolf was a single
> 10 inch Allegro 78 read by Crane Calder which I got when I
> was about 4 years old.  This is a record I assumed nobody
> would ever have heard of today by a reader nobody would
> know, however I just checked on google and discovered there
> are many sites on Crane Calder and that the 78 is going for
> $22.95 at Amazon.com.
> 
> Good luck to the seller..The Kiddie Rekord King values it
> between $3 and $6.
> 
> > 
> > Anyway, this version can't be much longer than 5
> minutes and is about as condensed as possible.  To start off
> with, all references to the different instruments
> representing the characters is dispensed with, (just as well
> since there is only a piano accompanying this version).  At
> the end, there is the usual line about listening very
> carefully to hear the duck quacking in the wolf's
> stomach.  I had my head stuck as close to the horn as
> possible trying to hear a duck - I couldn't hear any
> @#$% duck!  Since he hadn't introduced the tunes at the
> beginning, there was no reason to think he was referring to
> the duck's tune.  I can remember being in a record store
> with my father at the age of 5, (my dad died when I turned 6
> so I'm quite sure about how old I was), and he asked me
> if I wanted the Richard Hale version of Peter and the Wolf. 
> Since I wasn't too crazy about the version I had, I
> declined his offer, to my subsequent regret.  Now it is one
> of my
> >  favourite pieces, although I don't have 200
> versions of it, and last year, recorded it for a CD which
> was nominated for a Juno, (Windsor Symphony conducted by
> John Morris Russell with Colm Feore reading) and, hopefully
> without prejudice, believe it to be one of the most
> spectacular recordings of it on the market.
> 
> Ought to be pretty darn good!
> 
> I grew up on the Basil Rathbone set. The first time I
> encountered the Richard 
> Hale recording was when someone brought it to school in
> Grade 5. Mercifully it 
> was missing a disc. No disrespect to Koussy, but I thought
> that reading was 
> preposterous then and still do. Definitely not the way to
> tell a kids story. 
> More appropriate for telling Caesar to beware the Ides of
> March.

And we all know how much good THAT did!

Mike in Plovdiv
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