A friend returned a book this evening and handed over a lovely bunch of tulips
If there are tulips in the shops, surely Spring can't be too far away?
I adore this version of Carnival of the animals, with Roger Moore's tongue in cheek delivery, and the humour of the performance, and obvious enjoyment and rapport of the musicians, and the romantic venue. I wish I had been there.
I think this must be in the spirit of the original performance; Saint-Saens composed it as a light-hearted entertainment for his students and friends, and afterwards tried to suppress it as a mere frivolous nonsense.
It might be frivolous, but it is still genius!
Here's the cuckoo... where's the cuckoo?
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