has written poems based on Camille Saint-Saens's "The Carnival of Animals." He will read the poems when the National Symphony Orchestra performs the music at the Kennedy Center on Sunday.

Lions, swans, donkeys and… pianists? Here are all 14 movements of The Carnival of the Animals, and what they’re about. The French composer Camille Saint-Saëns took himself quite seriously. So ...

The show closes with the headlined ballet, Christopher Wheeldon's colorful theatrical production "Carnival of the Animals." "It's a story of a young boy who spends the night in the New York Museum ...

This tone poem by Sibelius from 1895, tells the tale of a mystical swan, running around the island of the dead. Saint-Saëns famously sets The Swan, from his Carnival of the Animals, as a solo cello, ...

This summer, join the BBC Proms with some fun, creative activities inspired by The Carnival of the Animals ... or create your own fantastical animal poetry. Once you've done that share your ...

From conductor Charles Dutoit and the London Sinfonietta, we hear two pieces from Camille Saint-Saens' (1835-1921) zoological fantasy, the "Carnival of the Animals." ...