(FORTUNE Magazine) – EUREKA, CALIFORNIA -- A cellist quit the Eureka Symphony Orchestra rather than perform a work she said encourages the killing of wolves: Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Symphony officials said the. . . performance will go on with a replacement for principal cellist Anne Conrad-Antoville. . . Conductor Kenneth Hannaford said, "It's simply a piece that children enjoy and is educational.'' In a letter to. . . Econews, an environmental magazine, Conrad-Antoville said the 1936 tale teaches children "to hate and fear wolves and to applaud a hunter who kills a wolf." Wolves have survived despite "genocidal programs being waged against them and other predators," she wrote. . . The furor has actually given ticket sales a little boost, orchestra manager Patricia Person said. -- From an AP dispatch.