One of its movements uses a frustratingly slow version of Offenbach's can-can music, while another Â uses the xylophone to mimic its composer's Danse Macabre.
One portion of this work is a series of scales played on two pianos with loud chords in the strings between the scales to signal key shifts. One section of this work quotes the "Dance of the Sylphs" from The Damnation of Faust and the scherzo from Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream in the double bass. Michel Fokine choreographed a section of this piece for Anna Pavlova; that portion was the only one its composer (*) allowed to be publicly performed in his lifetime. One of its movements uses a frustratingly slow version of Offenbach's can-can music, while another Â uses the xylophone to mimic its composer's Danse Macabre. For 10 points, the movements "Pianists," "Fossils," and "Tortoises," are all part of this suite by Camille Saint-Saens whose best-known movement is the cello solo "The Swan".
One portion of this work is a series of scales played on two pianos with loud chords in the strings between the scales to signal key shifts.
The Carnival of the Animals [or Le carnaval des animaux]