Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sergei Prokofiev once composed a charming piece for children called Peter and the Wolf (TIME, Aug. 21). But that was a long time ago (1936). Home in Russia again after living in the U.S. and France, he was then still basking in the warmth of a hero's welcome. Since then many things have happened to Sergei Prokofiev. The hero's welcome wore out. Two years ago, he was sharply reprimanded for "bourgeois decadence." He meekly promised to mend his ways...
...audience one night last week at the Berkshire Festival had a special treat: Eleanor Roosevelt made her musical debut as the narrator in Prokofiev's symphonic fable, Peter and the Wolf. The First Lady emeritus, who had arrived to rehearse only that morning, read her score (solo passages underlined in black ink, lines with orchestral accompaniment in red) with a mellow distinctness, never missed a cue. The audience called her back for five rousing curtain calls. Said Conductor Serge Koussevitzky ecstatically: "Now the First Lady of the world is not only a grandmother to her own grandchildren, but, through...
Nine-year-old Paulette had seen her parents killed when Nazi planes machine-gunned a refugee column in France. Death was an intimate presence: a "big wolf" in the sky, cries and confusion on the road, then corpses pushed into ditches...
Word got around that Eleanor Roosevelt had taken on yet another chore: come August, she will be the narrator for Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf to the kids at the Berkshire Festival. Meanwhile, landing in London after a tour of the Continent, she planted a warm buss on the cheek of her hostess, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading...
...Wolf's Clothing. In Milwaukee, Arthur M. Sells, voted "Second Biggest Wolf" by his Princeton class ('50), sheepishly revealed that he was already married...