The show, conducted by Kalena Bovell, also includes an upbeat suite from Georges Bizet's " Carmen," featuring local soprano Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson Eric Whitacre's musical setting of the children's classic " Goodnight Moon" and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's festive overture celebrating his African culture, " Danse Nègre."Ĭourtesy of Geremy Kornreich When Burris heard that CMF was programming Peter and the Wolf for its 2023 season, she knew she had to audition. Peter and the Wolf will be presented as part of the CMF's annual family concert on Sunday, July 2, at Chautauqua Auditorium. The story revolves around Peter, a young boy who lives with his grandfather in the woods, and his battle with a ferocious gray wolf. Written in 1936 by Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf was designed as a musical symphony to introduce children to individual instruments in the orchestra. I immediately fell in love with it and wanted to play the narrator."
The instruments narrate the story quite well, and then they have the voice of an actor underscoring the fairy tale. "While my eyes were closed, I vividly remember being able to see whole scenes in my head. "I remember a teacher having us put our heads down, shut off the lights and listen to a recording of Peter and the Wolf," Burris recalls. And now, thanks to the Colorado Music Festival, she's able to make that childhood dream a reality. Ever since actress and comedian Janae Burris first heard Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf when she was in second grade, she'd wanted to serve as the story's narrator.
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