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Post Subject: “Peter and the Wolf” as a mirror...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 5/2/2006
Yep, that Koussevitsky’s recording was fun, which brings another prospective to the entire Prokofiev's saga. Sixty years ago we had political leaders who has some exposure to the cultural feel of our country. I wonder what cultural/musical heritage the psychotic white-trashes that conquested our Wight House nowadays would be able to leave? The previous administration left a wonderful recording of the very same “Peter and the Wolf”. In 2003 the Russian National Orchestra lead by Kent Nogano recorded the Prokofiev tale with Sophia Loren, Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev. Bill Clinton reading the wolf was hilarious but it is very much not a comedy: they all did a very-very good job. The today’s dirt from Washington, I am sure, will also leave their own version of the Prokofiev's work. I think they will rename it as “The Imbecile and a Camel”…
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