<P> In 1936 , Sergei Prokofiev was commissioned by Natalya Sats , the director of the Central Children 's Theatre in Moscow , to write a musical symphony for children . Sats and Prokofiev had become acquainted after he visited her theatre with his sons several times . The intent was to introduce children to the individual instruments of the orchestra . The first draft of the libretto was about a Young Pioneer ( the Soviet version of a Boy Scout ) called Peter who rights a wrong by challenging an adult . ( This was a common theme in propaganda aimed at children in the USSR at the time . ) However , Prokofiev was dissatisfied with the rhyming text produced by Antonina Sakonskaya , a then popular children 's author . Prokofiev wrote a new version where Peter captures a wolf . As well as promoting desired Pioneer virtues such as vigilance , bravery and resourcefulness , the plot illustrates Soviet themes such as the stubbornness of the un-Bolshevik older generation ( the grandfather ) and the triumph of Man ( Peter ) taming Nature ( the wolf ) . Prokofiev produced a version for the piano in under a week , finishing it on April 15 . The orchestration was finished on April 24 . The work debuted at a children 's concert in the main hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the Moscow Philharmonic on 2 May 1936 . However , Sats was ill and the substitute narrator inexperienced , and the performance failed to attract much attention . Later that month a much more successful performance with Sats narrating was given at the Moscow Pioneers Palace . The American premiere took place in March 1938 , with Prokofiev himself conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall , Boston with Richard Hale narrating . By that time Sats was serving a sentence in the gulag , where she was sent after her lover Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky was shot in June 1937 . </P>
<P> In 1936 , Sergei Prokofiev was commissioned by Natalya Sats , the director of the Central Children 's Theatre in Moscow , to write a musical symphony for children . Sats and Prokofiev had become acquainted after he visited her theatre with his sons several times . The intent was to introduce children to the individual instruments of the orchestra . The first draft of the libretto was about a Young Pioneer ( the Soviet version of a Boy Scout ) called Peter who rights a wrong by challenging an adult . ( This was a common theme in propaganda aimed at children in the USSR at the time . ) However , Prokofiev was dissatisfied with the rhyming text produced by Antonina Sakonskaya , a then popular children 's author . Prokofiev wrote a new version where Peter captures a wolf . As well as promoting desired Pioneer virtues such as vigilance , bravery and resourcefulness , the plot illustrates Soviet themes such as the stubbornness of the un-Bolshevik older generation ( the grandfather ) and the triumph of Man ( Peter ) taming Nature ( the wolf ) . Prokofiev produced a version for the piano in under a week , finishing it on April 15 . The orchestration was finished on April 24 . The work debuted at a children 's concert in the main hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the Moscow Philharmonic on 2 May 1936 . However , Sats was ill and the substitute narrator inexperienced , and the performance failed to attract much attention . Later that month a much more successful performance with Sats narrating was given at the Moscow Pioneers Palace . The American premiere took place in March 1938 , with Prokofiev himself conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall , Boston with Richard Hale narrating . By that time Sats was serving a sentence in the gulag , where she was sent after her lover Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky was shot in June 1937 . </P>
where does peter and the wolf take place
where does peter and the wolf take place
Moscow
Moscow