Krishan P. Oberoi writes: >My local orchestra (The Rhode Island Philharmonic) is presenting a >program this weekend which includes Dukas' "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" >with a narrator (storyteller Bill Harley). ... I have done some >research but have found no mention of an accompanying narration to this >piece, or whether there is a precedent for such performances. > >Any insight into this? My score doesn't contain a narrator's part. I've heard only one "narration" in recording: Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops with Richard Halley (?), and that occurs as a prelude before the music. Dukas's piece was "inspired" by a ballad by Goethe, just as Strauss's Don Juan was inspired by a play by Lenau. However, there are no narrators in either. My guess. Steve Schwartz