"Camille Saint-Saëns was wracked with pains, When people addressed him as "Saint-Saynes"; He held the human race to blame, because it could not pronounce his name." Readers who remember Ogden Nash's verses will sympathise further with Camille Saint-Saëns in his predicament at being known as a composer primarily for his zoological fantasy "Carnival of the Animals", though his "Organ" Symphony and several of his concertos for violin, for 'cello and for piano, have... read more