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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 ...
Hirt was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, [1] the son of a police officer. At the age of six, he was given his first trumpet, which had been purchased at a local pawnshop. He played in the Junior Police Band with friend Roy Fernandez, the son of Alcide Nunez; by the age of 16, Hirt was playing professionally, often with his friend Pete Fountain, while attending Jesuit High School.
His compositions for television include "Somewhere in the Night", the theme for Naked City (1960), and his jazzy arrangement of "Flight of the Bumblebee" for The Green Hornet (1966) with trumpet by Al Hirt. He composed the Batgirl theme for Batman (1966).
The Green Hornet ("Flight of the Bumblebee") – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; orchestration by Billy May; conducted by Lionel Newman; trumpet solo by Al Hirt; Grey's Anatomy ("Cosy in the Rocket") – Psapp; The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy – Gregory Hinde and Drew Neumann; Grojband – Brian Pickett and Graeme Cornies; Grounded for Life – Ween
The Green Hornet theme was played by legendary New Orleans Jazz trumpeter, Al Hirt. The most recognizable version of this tune is played by trumpet great Harry James. James was Benny Goodman's lead trumpet and was married to Betty Grable. It was a big hit for him and his band and plays over the opening titles in Woody Allen's Radio Days
In 1950, Ojala won an international trumpet competition which was organized by WCBS in New York City. Ojala qualified from 82 contestants to compete in the five contestant-final round and got the victory by playing Flight of the Bumblebee and Carnival of Venice.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral interlude, "Flight of the Bumblebee", used for the radio series, was so strongly identified with The Green Hornet that a similar, jazz-styled theme modeled after the Rimsky-Korsakov piece was used for the series, arranged by Billy May, who also composed the background scores, and conducted by Lionel Newman ...
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.