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Cinderella: Work
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Prokofiev immediately began work on Cinderella at his country house in Kratov, but the fairy-tale world of Cinderella quickly evaporated with the brutalities of the German bombardment of Russia. Happy ballet music was no longer a particularly desirable commodity in Russia, and like most Soviet composers, Prokofiev turned to writing songs and marches for the Red Army and weightier orchestral works. As Prokofiev put it, "music that could resonate directly at the front." His major project during the war became the opera of Tolstoy's epic story of Russians resisting Napoleon's invasion, War and Peace.
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Cinderella was originally written for a live television musical broadcast in 1957, as a vehicle for Julie Andrews, who played the title role. Its popularity caused the creators to adapt the work for the stage, and it was subsequently remade for television twice, in 1965 and 1997, starring Lesley Ann Warren and Brandy, respectively, in the title role.
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Students will be involved in an Author Study genre centering around the Cinderella theme. The Readers/Writers Workshop, while addressing the New York City Core Curriculum, will provide teachers and students with the strategies needed for the mastery of writers craft.
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