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Peter Ustinov reads The Orchestra [VHS]

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This delightful video includes the gorgeous water color illustrations from the book, plus Peter Ustinov's erudite narration, and samples of all of the instruments of the orchestra actually playing famous passages that feature them. It's fabulous, and should not be allowed to go out of print. It needs to be on DVD and available to every child as an introduction to the orchestra!

I, who have spent time reading books about the instruments/orchestration, learned a few things from this! It's primarily meant for children to get them interested in music, and I think it really does do that well. But even if you, like I, already have quite a bit of knowledge about the different instruments, it is still fun to watch, especially because Peter Ustinov can make such simple text sound so colorful :-) . Peter Ustinov was actually trained in music.