WHAT DO YOU HEAR AND SEE? The Carnival of the Animals: The Aquarium by Camille Saint-Saens
Saturday, February 28th, 2009 at
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Le Carnaval des Animaux (The Carnival of the Animals) is a musical suite of fourteen movements by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The orchestral work has a duration between 22 and 30 minutes. VII- Aquarium Strings without double-bass, two pianos, flute, and glass armonica: This is one of the more musically rich movements. The melody is played by the flute, backed by the strings, on top of tumultuous, glissando-like runs in the piano. The first piano plays a descending ten ...