Part 2
Described as a musical tale for children,' ' Peter and the Wolf ' was first performed at a children's concert in Moscow in 1936. Since then it has gained wide popularity, and has been produced as a ballet, both in England and America. The story of Peter's-resourcefulness and the wolf's discomfiture is told by the narrator and illustrated by the orchestra. Each character in the story is represented by an instrument; the bird by a flute, the duck by an oboe, the cat by a clarinet in a low register, the grand-father by a bassoon, and the wolf by three homs. Peter's blithely adventurous theme, which begins the ' musical tale,' is played by the strings. Harold Rutland