Animal-Themed Music
We recommend pairing one or more of the following works curated from Wise Music Classical’s music rental catalogue with The Snowman in Concert to create a full-evening program.
Longer Works (15-30 minutes)
Carnival or the Animals (for chamber orchestra)
Description: Saint-Saëns original suite in fourteen movements, depicting: the lion (Royal March), hens and roosters, wild donkeys, tortoises, the elephant, kangaroos, an aquarium, characters with long ears, the cuckoo, an aviary, pianists, fossils, and the swan, ending with a grand 2-minute finale.
Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns
Duration: 21 min
Orchestration: 1010/0000/xyl/2pf.hca/str
Description: A supplement to Saint-Saën’s original work featuring six additional zoological species: giraffe, sheep, cows, mice, jumbo animals, and bats (chiroptera).
Composer: Malcolm Arnold
Duration: 15 min
Orchestration: 2+pic.2.2.2/432(btbn)1/timp.3perc/str(7.6.5.4.3)
Shorter Works (14 minutes and under)
Description: An upbeat suite featuring music from classic Tom and Jerry cartoons, including “Smitten Kitten,” “Sufferin’ Cats,” “The Framed Cat,” “Cat Fishin’,” “The Mouse Comes to Dinner,” and “Mouse for Sale.”
Composer: Scott Bradley
Duration: 6.5 min
Orchestration: 3(III:pic).3.3(III:bcl).3.2asx(2cl).2tsx.barsx/6.4.3+btbn.1/timp.5perc.dmkit/pf.hp/gtr/str
Circus Polka (for a Young Elephant)
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Duration: 4 min
Orchestration: 1+pic.2.2.2/4231/2perc/str
Hatari!: Baby Elephant Walk
Description: Mancini’s iconic theme from the 1962 film starring John Wayne, Elsa Martinelli, and Hardy Krüger.
Composer: Henry Mancini
Duration: 3 min
Version in D Major: 0+3pic.2+ca.2+Ebcl+bcl.2[=3]/4.4.3.1/timp.perc/pf/gtr.eb/str
Version in F Major: 0+3pic.2+ca.2+Ebcl+bcl.2[=3]/4.4.3.1/timp+2perc/pf/gtr.eb/calliope (4 hands)/str
Composer: Leroy Anderson
Duration: 3 min
Orchestration: 322.2asx+tsx.2/4331/4perc/str
Description: Scottish-inspired dance music featuring elements of the Spanish tarantella and a phantom rooster.
Composer: Leroy Anderson
Duration: 3 min
Orchestration: 322.asx+tsx.2/4331/timp.perc/str