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- Victoria Bond
The Frog Prince (1984)
(chamber orchestra)- G Schirmer Inc (World)
Original commissioned by The Empire State Institute for the Performing Arts. Chamber orchestra version commissioned by The Williamsburg Symphonia.
This orchestration matches Prokofiev's 'Peter and the Wolf'
- narr + 1.1.1.1/3.1.1.0/timp.perc/str
- Narrator
- 24 min
- Victoria Bond, Bob McGrath and Anne Sperry McGrath
- English
Programme Note
Synopsis
A princess loses her golden ball in a well and strikes a deal with a "frog" to retrieve it. Different families of instruments are used cleverly to highlight distinct sections of the narrative.
