Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utflis.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!utai!utflis!chai 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 Article-I.D.: utflis.283 Posted: Sun Sep 29 01:10:59 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 02:41:53 EDT References: <210@decwrl.UUCP> <131@ur-tut.UUCP> Reply-To: chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai) Organization: FLIS, University of Toronto Lines: 18 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 {watmath,ihnp4,allegra}!utzoo!utflis!chai