The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) Romantic genre of programmatic music, which composers like Franz Liszt, Claude Debussy, Jean Sibelius and Richard Strauss increasingly explored as an alternative to earlier symphonic forms. Unlike other tone poems, such as "La mer" by Debussy or "Finlandia" by Sibelius, Dukas's work is, like works such as "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" by Strauss, descriptively programmatic, closely following the events described in the Goethe poem. It was customary, in fact, to publish the poem as part of the orchestral score. The instrumentation of the piece consists of two flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two soprano clarinets and bass clarinet, three bassoons
The Magician's Apprentice (Doctor Who) The Magician's Apprentice (Doctor Who) "The Magician's Apprentice" is the first episode of the ninth series of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It was first broadcast on BBC One on 19 September 2015. It is the first episode of a two-parter, the second of which is "The Witch's Familiar", both written by Steven Moffat and directed by Hettie MacDonald. Filming began in February 2015 in Tenerife, Spain. In the pair of episodes, alien time traveller the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) battles his old enemies the Daleks and attempts to save his companion Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman). Julian Bleach