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[moonwise]

For 15 years - no exaggeration - I have been looking for this piece of music ever since I heard it at the Baltimore Seaquarium on a class trip. Thanks to the classical music station, I finally know its title and composer. Perhaps ironically, the piece is titled "Aquarium."

Aquarium - Camille Saint-Saens

The same composer also wrote "Danse Macabre." This one ought to be familiar. It's meant to evoke Death playing the violin in a graveyard to dancing skeletons. According to the liner notes, the composer's mother fainted upon hearing it for the first time.

Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saens

Comments

[little-licks.livejournal.com]

He also wrote the Symphony for Orchestra and Organ Power.

Just kidding. But he did write a symphony using a lot of pipe organ. I remember playing it at the University of Houston.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that you played the organ! It's such an impressive instrument.

Damn it all, I forgot to ask my friend whether she brought Organ Power! with her at Xmas...

[little-licks.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't play organ for that piece - I was a violinist in that symphony.

Damn, I haven't touched an organ in ten years...should really work on that...