Ferdinand the Bull & Friends (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Classical Music  »  General/Classical
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• Release Date: April 5, 2011
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: North Pacific Music
• UPC: 611226003227
• WAPI (Tower ID): 117238349
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Ferdinand the Bull is a musical setting of The Story of Ferdinand, written in 1932 by Munro Leaf and illustrated by Robert Lawson. The book is a classic. Here characters and events get musical themes: Ferdinand''s flower-sniffing waltz (played by the cello), fast piano scales depict other young bulls running around and the fanfare is for the parade into the bullring. And there is a part everyone can play, right along with the recording: put a finger in your mouth, tighten your lips, and "pluck" one side just like the reader - it''s the sound of a cork popping off a bottle, for the cork tree. The Carnival of the Animals was written in 1886 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The poems are by American poet Ogden Nash. In The Carnival of the Animals Saint-Saëns'' music imitates many animal sounds. For one animal, not known for any sound, he plays a trick. He makes a really slow dance -- the famous French "Can-Can" for the tortoise. The elephant gets a funny waltz and the fossils... just imagine. The 15 poems of Ogden Nash to the music of Camille Saint Saëns are illustrated by Devin Bernard. Drawings on the face, poems on the back of shiny firm CD-size discs: novelty conversation pieces or parlor game for children of all ages. Take turns, pick a card, start reading the poem, the first to jump in and finish the poem gets the card - "child" with the most cards gets to make punch and serve cookies as everyone enjoys David, Chie and Nina, having great fun with Mark''s arrangements of all 14 animals in Saint Saëns'' and Nash''s whimsically artistic CARNIVALE ANIMALE - a timeless classic in music and verse. Maurice Ravel loved music and children. With Jean and Mimie, children of his musician friends Cipa and Ida Godebski, he spent hours telling stories and playing games. When they were 8 and 10 years old and learning piano, he composed The Mother Goose Suite for them to play together. Eventually it was so popular he made it into a ballet for a whole orchestra.

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