Piece for children badly threatened after piano course rejected (5,3,3,4)
I believe the answer is:
peter and the wolf
'piece for children' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'badly threatened after piano course rejected' is the wordplay.
'badly' indicates anagramming the letters (letters in the wrong order).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'piano' becomes 'p' (musical abbreviation).
'course' becomes 'flow' (synonyms).
'rejected' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'flow' back-to-front is 'wolf'.
'threatened' is an anagram of 'eterandthe'.
'eterandthe' after 'p' is 'peterandthe'.
'peterandthe'+'wolf'='PETER AND THE WOLF'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for peter and the wolf that I've seen before include "musical entertainment" , "musical fairy-tale" , "Children's piece by Prokofiev" , "variation that Prokofiev wrote" , "A musical adventure" .)