I had promised to make a sno-cone at our house, and wanted to expose my grandson to Peter and the Wolf.

Turns out our icemaker’s “crushed” ice is barely crushed at all. Even running it through the Cuisinart barely improved it. It was a grade B sno-cone (flavored with hazelnut syrup), but he told me he liked it, and he tends to be quite honest on the subject of food likes and dislikes, so I believed him.

Because his music teacher has taught him to identify a number of instruments, I decided to play Peter and the Wolf  for him―the classic young person’s introduction to the orchestra. At first, I played Sir John Gielgud narrating it. I thought they would show each instrument as it played. Nope. So I switched to the classic Disney Peter and the Wolf, which showed the instruments briefly, then showed the story. As soon as the wolf swallowed the duck, you knew it was alive because that’s what happened in Red Riding Hood.