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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

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Right... both of them have a celesta in them, I think, which produces a very characteristic sound. Of course, they weren't written by the same person. :)