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moi_not_toi

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Saint-Saens and Chopin (not at all what you think)

on: July 12, 2006, 10:34:30 PM

How many of you have heard Saint Saens's Carnival of the Animals?

Remember the Aquarium?

I heard a rumor that it's based on something by Chopin. Would anyone happen to have it?

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Re: Saint-Saens and Chopin (not at all what you think)

Reply #1 on: July 13, 2006, 12:27:27 AM

hmmm i have no idea. whenever i play it to people they tell me it's from beauty and the beast. i have this funny french dvd on carnival of the animals and it tells you all kinds of blah on derivations of half the movements, but doesn't mention chopin...

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Reply #2 on: July 13, 2006, 01:17:59 AM

Yeah, that's where I first heard it too.

I had a CD with Leonard Bernstein conducting, he says something about it. Unfortunately, it snapped in half.

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