Music for Dumbledore's Wake

[kempermentor]

Mary wrote:
>
> It looks like my long planned but never realized wake for Albus 
Dumbledore  
> will finally happen next month. 
>  
> My original plans simply called for playing the soundtracks to the 
movies  
> but now I'd like to assemble something a little more Dumbledore 
specific. While  
> I will include selections from the movies, what music would you 
play for 
> Albus  Dumbledore? 
>
Kemper now:
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan at 
the turn of the last century.  I had to look it up....

At the end of ActIII and the magic Swan-Bird gives the little Tsar 
prince instructions on how to chancge into an insect so that he can 
fly away to visit his father, the Tsar, who does not know that the 
prince is alive.  The musical piece in this opera is one of the most 
recognized pieces of music even today: Flight of the Bumblebee.

As the bumblebee flies around the Swan-Bird, the Swan-Bird sings:

Well, now, my bumblebee, go on a spree,
catch up with the ship on the sea,
go down secretly,
get into a crack a little distance away.
Good luck, Gvidon, fly,
only do not stay long!

Anyone else see the phoenix in the Swan-Bird? 

So, I hope your wake goes well, but I believe the wake isn't 
necessary yet.  Dumbledore lives!

-Kemper, some say that he's a dreamer, but he's not the only one