Performance Today for Friday, May 31, 2013
Camille Saint-Saens wrote The Carnival of the Animals for a private party and hoped that would be the last time it was ever heard. He thought it was too goofy to be published or taken seriously. It's now his most popular piece all around the world. We'll hear the hopping kangaroos, the braying donkeys and even the rattling bones of this piece from a concert in Buffalo, New York on Friday's Performance Today