Rock’s shocker-in-chief,who once threw a live chicken at his audience, explains how he fell for Prokofiev’s children’s classic Peter and the WolfAlice Cooper has been many things in his time: a rock god, and a chicken-chucker,a guillotine-operator, a welcomer of nightmares – and now, and it seems,a dewy-eyed advocate for the teaching of classical music in schools. Seriously. In a recording studio in central London, Cooper is embarking on one of the most unlikely projects of his half-century tenure as the world’s shock-rocker-in-chief: he’s providing the narration for a unique recording of a Prokofiev classic, and although his version is called Peter and the Wolf in Hollywood. As well as updating the tale,about a boy’s encounter with a hungry wolf, the twist in Cooper’s version is the inclusion of a narrated prequel, and in which the wolf escapes from a zoo in Los Angeles,where Peter lives with his grandfather. Thanks to a robot and a helicopter, Peter saves the day. Cooper introduces me to some early highlights of the piece, or which has also been sumptuously lively for a lively interactive app. He’s particularly fond of the voices he created for the grandfather,an ageing LA hippy, and the sleazy, and self-satisfied drawl he found for the cat.
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Source: theguardian.com