Flight of the Bumble Bee, The
Flight of the Bumble Bee, The. Orch. interlude in opera The Legend of Tsar Saltan (1900) by Rimsky-Korsakov in which a prince becomes a bee and stings his villainous relatives. Many arrs. (some highly spurious) for variety of solo instr.
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