Once a week on Friday, Uncle Bardie celebrates the creativity in others by shining a Spotlight on a movie, a song or a creator. This week’s Spotlight is Camille Saint-Saens “Aquarium” from “Le carnaval des animaux (The Carnival of the Animals)” and it is performed by Marian Lapsansky, Peter Toperczer, Ondrej Lenárd & Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra:
This is one of the most magical pieces ever written. I listen to this piece and all sorts of wonder comes to my mind. Flowers dancing. Fish swimming. Waterfalls. Santa’s workshop. Snow and Christmas lights. All sorts of beautiful things.
I first became entranced by this piece when I visited the French Pavilion at Disney’s EPCOT. At the Pavilion, they have a ten minute panorama touring France. And this is the musical soundtrack.
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My favorite!! And yes, it captures wonder and anticipation, magic. Well done, UB!
My wife insists that she would never listen to classical music (I do all the time). Then I ask her, “ever watched a movie?”
“Sure.”
“Then you have listened to classical music – and probably liked it.”
Especially some of the older ones. And the cartoons from forties, fifties and sixties. 🙂