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English: Carol Williams performs her arrangement of "Flight of the Bumblebee" by Rimsky-Korsakov at the West Point Military Academy Chapel This organ is the largest chapel pipe organ in the world, [ 1 ] which boasts some The organ now consists of 23,511 pipes individual pipes.
Flight of the Bumblebee" (Russian: Полёт шмеля) is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900. This perpetuum mobile is intended to musically evoke the seemingly chaotic and rapidly changing flying pattern of a bumblebee. Despite the piece's ...
The Swan-Bird will help him by changing him into a bumblebee. He will be able to fly over the sea, as a stowaway on Saltan's ship, to visit him (incognito) in Tmutarakan. Interlude — Flight of the Bumblebee. Scene 2. The sailors arrive at Tmutarakan from their visit to Buyan.
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The success of Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve encouraged him to complete an opera approximately every 18 months between 1893 and 1908 — a total of 11 during this period. [89] He also started and abandoned another draft of his treatise on orchestration, [73] but made a third attempt and almost finished it in the last four years of his life.
The orchestral interlude Flight of the Bumblebee was composed (c. 1900) by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. It represents the turning of Prince Guidon into a bumblebee so he can fly away to visit his father, Tsar Saltan, in the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, [145] although the music may reflect the flight of a bluebottle rather than a bumblebee. [146]
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Flight of the Bumblebee", an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900 "Bumble Bee", a song originally recorded by Memphis Minnie in 1929