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Title: One elementary music teacher's review
Review: This version of "Peter" is the best I've ever seen. The purpose behind teaching "Peter" in an elementary music setting is to introduce theme and variation as well as the instruments of the orchestra. I've always been so frustrated by the versions of this which have a narrator. Who needs a narrator when you already have a visual for students to watch? The narrators always take away from students' ability to listen to the music. In this version, no narrator exists leaving the story to the music and the beautiful stop motion animation. My students are better able to focus on the music (the themes and instruments) and vocally duplicate them after I use this DVD to enhance my unit plan on "Peter and the Wolf." It makes me want to hug the director. -K. Adams
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