Carnival Finale
On Friday pupils in class 12j had a carnival procession with animal masks across the school field to our Forest School area to celebrate their project – Carnival Of Te Animals.
“Le carnaval” was composed in February 1886 by a French composer called Camille Saint-Saëns. He wrote it while on holiday in a small Austrian village.
The piece is written for a symphony orchestra and has fourteen different movements that cleverly use sounds created by instruments to mimic the sounds of different animals. A performance of the whole piece lasts about twenty-five minutes!
Saint-Saëns, thought that the music was too frivolous and might harm his reputation as a serious composer. So he wouldn’t allow the music to be published or performed in public. apart from one movement, The Swan (Le cygne.)
However, Saint-Saens gave permission in his will for the music to be published after he died. So it was 30 years after it had first been written that the Carnival of the Animals was first performed on 26 February 1922. It has since become one of Saint-Saens’s most popular works.
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