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    The Carnival of the Animals (French: Le Carnaval des animaux) is a humorous musical suite of 14 movements, including "The Swan", by the French composer...
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  • Carnival of the Animals is a ballet choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon to the Le Carnaval Des Animaux by Saint-Saëns, with narrations written by John...
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  • Peter & the Wolf/Carnival of the Animals – Part II is a studio album by American parody singer-songwriter and musician "Weird Al" Yankovic and composer...
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  • 1994. The second recording involved Symphony No. 5, Carnival of the Animals, and Pomp and Circumstance, on April 25, 1994. Carnival of the Animals, Finale...
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  • Daffy's Carnival of the Animals (originally aired on TV as Carnival of the Animals) is a 1976 live action/animated television special featuring the Looney...
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    "Le cygne", pronounced [lə siɲ], or "The Swan", is the 13th and penultimate movement of The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns. Originally scored...
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    Carnival or Shrovetide is a festive season that occurs at the close of the Christian pre-Lenten period, consisting of Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday,...
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  • fourth movements. The piece was recorded on March 28, 1994. The second recording involved Symphony No. 5, Carnival of the Animals, and Pomp and Circumstance...
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    of "Heartbeat" by Don Johnson "House of the Sesame Seed Bun", a parody of "House of the Rising Sun" by The Animals "Heart So Proud," featured on the 30...
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  • The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns titled "The Carnival of the Animals—Part II", with Yankovic providing funny poems for each of the featured...
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    Camille Saint-Saëns (category Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour)
    (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and The Carnival of the Animals (1886)...
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    Laura O'Gorman, The Philharmonia, Philip Ellis – Peter and the Wolf, Carnival of the Animals, Toy Symphony, discogs.com Peter and the Wolf (TV 1997) at...
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    Glass harmonica (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    "Resonance Is a Glass Act for a Heroine on the Edge". The New York Times. The Carnival of the Animals: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project...
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    Simon Pryce (category The Wiggles members)
    2016, the Wiggles released The Carnival of the Animals, its narration was written and performed by Pryce. The album, based on the piece by the French...
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  • recordings, including of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite (1892) and Camille Saint-Saëns's The Carnival of the Animals (1922). The Russian composer...
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    use of the xylophone to imitate the sounds of rattling bones. Saint-Saëns uses a similar motif in the Fossils movement of The Carnival of the Animals. The...
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  • Franz Schubert "The Elephant" from The Carnival of the Animals - Camille Saint-Saens "People with Long Ears" from The Carnival of the Animals - Camille Saint-Saëns...
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    John Lithgow (category Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
    ballet Carnival of the Animals and appeared as the elephant character—nurse Mabel Buntz—with the New York City Ballet. In 2004, he portrayed the moralistic...
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    Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns) (category Works commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society)
    [The Carnival of the Animals] is so amusing. Original sketches for the symphony indicate that Saint-Saëns originally wrote the opening theme of the symphony...
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    Alisa Weilerstein (category Cleveland Institute of Music alumni)
    (The Swan) (2:56) Weilerstein and Jason Yoder (marimba) perform Camille Saint-Saëns's "Le cygne" (The Swan) from The Carnival of the Animals at the White...
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    the Wolf. The album also included a sequel to Camille Saint-Saëns's composition The Carnival of the Animals, titled "The Carnival of the Animals Part II"...
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    made up of amusement rides, food vendors, merchandise vendors, games of chance and skill, thrill acts, and animal acts. A traveling carnival is not set...
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  • the Gramophone Awards. Honors in various categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the...
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    Eleanor Bron (category Actors from the London Borough of Harrow)
    uranium mining in the Orkney Islands. Bron has written and performed new verses for Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals. She has also performed...
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    staff to complete the film during a production hiatus. He also served as director for Fantasia 2000's "The Carnival of the Animals" segment. Goldberg's...
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  • song by His Name is Alive from the album Livonia Fossiles, the 12th movement in the musical suite The Carnival of the Animals FOSSIL, a protocol for serial...
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  • episode of the television series QI (2007) Elephant (album), a 2003 album by the White Stripes L'Éléphant, a movement of The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns...
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    (1821), as did Camille Saint-Saëns in his 1886 The Carnival of the Animals. Richard Strauss calls for the glass harmonica in his 1917 Die Frau ohne Schatten...
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  • orchestral music, following in the tradition of The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns and Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. The Merregnon series is directed...
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    Ogden Nash (category Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
    back With the Giants, I wish. Nash wrote humorous poems for each movement of the Camille Saint-Saëns orchestral suite The Carnival of the Animals, which...
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