Weerachat Premananda is a Professor of Musical Composition at the Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Having been obtained the Master and the Doctorate degrees in Musical Composition from the University of the Philippines and University of Auckland under Dr.Ramon P.Santos, Prof. John Rimmer and Prof. John Elmsly as his teachers. He served as the Executive Committee of the Asian Composers League from 1990-1997. At present, he is the president of the Composers Association of Thailand which he has served for three consecutive terms.
Black Magic II is the imaginative name of the second Noah Ark which will lead the children of the new generation from human disaster of the next century. It was written in 1995-1998 for Symphony Orchestra in one moment. The composition is based on the motive and variations of strongly marked character which pervades the entire musical idea. The main structural material of the piece, particularly its motivic and harmonic elements, is introduced in the beginning of the piece. The thematic material has been subjected to various styles of variation.
Prokofiev, who belongs to an older generation than Stravinsky, spent his most flourishing period during and after the last period of Czarist Russia as a banner bearer of Modernism. While he lived abroad in semi-exil for l6 years after the Russian Revolution in 1917, he was active mainly in the United States or Europe. After returning to his country in 1933, he was active mainly in the Soviet Union where socialist realism was dominant, and composed many of his masterpieces as one of the pillars of modern Russian music ranked. Prokofiev, who gave full play to his talent in opera, ballet, and also film music, preferred to compose many works for drama, or program music which contains a dramatic expression. "Peter and the Wolf', planned as music for children, was completed in 1938 and successfully premiered in Moscow. In 1937, he revised this work. Amusing music is played by Peter (orchestra and strings quartet). Peter's granddaddy (bassoon), a dickey bird (flute), a duck (oboe), a cat (clarinet), a wolf (three horns), and a hunter's gunshot (timpani).