Riverside County Office of Education is partnering with the Redlands Symphony to promote this year’s OrKIDstra music education program to you and your students; an original animated video of a performance of Sergei Prokofiev’s immortal Peter and the Wolf.

In the classroom curriculum, you have all the material you will need to introduce your students to the world of symphonic orchestras through the captivating story of a young boy’s encounter with the great outdoors and a menacing wolf. Below is the video to the concert.

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• Peter and the Wolf Teaching Materials

Naturally these materials are only intended as a starting point, and we encourage you to use them as inspiration for your own interpretation and presentation of the lesson. For most of you, this piece needs no introduction. Peter and the Wolf is perhaps the world’s most popular piece for children, and it does a fantastic job of introducing them to the orchestra all on its own.

The teaching materials include background information and some teaching aids we hope you’ll use to bring the story and performance to life for your students. We’d love to have you share some of your students’ work with us and with the people who help make this program possible through their donations. Just scan it and email it back to jenni.thurmond@redlandssymphony.com or drop it in regular mail and send it to the symphony office located at 112 E. Olive Avenue, Redlands, CA 92373.

Thanks so much for being part of the Redlands Symphony’s OrKIDstra program. And thank you for your commitment to ensuring our children continue to receive exposure to the arts as part of a well-rounded education.