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From: chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Tone poems (realy: donkeys)
Message-ID: <283@utflis.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 01:10:59 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 29 01:10:59 1985
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References: <210@decwrl.UUCP> <131@ur-tut.UUCP>
Reply-To: chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai)
Organization: FLIS, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

>In article <210@decwrl.UUCP> chabot@amber.DEC (All God's chillun got guns) writes:
>>Well, it seems to me that anyone who's ever heard a donkey would be reminded
>>of it by certain parts "Grand Canyon Suite".  But then, that's an auditory to
>>auditory, not auditory to visual.
> 
In article <131@ur-tut.UUCP> rwfi@ur-tut.UUCP (Robert Fink) writes:
>While we're on the subject of donkeys, let me bring up Mendelssohn (that's
>right, Mendelssohn!), whose Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream contains
>the clearest "HEE-HAW"'s in all music.

What about Saint Saens' "Carnival of the animals" ?? It's really a riot.
Donkeys hee-hawing, hens clucking, not to mention the waltzing elephant 
and the turtle doing a VERY SLOW Can-Can!!!

-- 
Henry Chai 
Faculty of Library and Information Science, U of Toronto
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