The Carnival of the Animals on 2 April at the home of Pauline Viardot with an audience including Franz Liszt, a friend of the composer, who had expressed a wish to hear the work. There were other private performances, typically for the French mid-Lent festival of , but Saint-Saëns was adamant that the work would not be published in his lifetime, seeing it as detracting from his "serious" composer image. He relented only for the famous cello solo "The Swan", which forms the penultimate movement of the work, and which was published in 1887 in an arrangement by the composer for cello and solo piano
The Girl Who Loved Animals The Girl Who Loved Animals "The Girl Who Loved Animals" is a short story by American writer Bruce McAllister. This particular work of short fiction was originally published in "Omni" in May 1988. It was included in the anthology "American Gothic Tales" in 1996 along. The story describes a future where primates are extinct and young impressionable women are targeted for an experimental procedures to impregnate them with a primate embryo, in an effort to bring back the species. Set in the near future and narrated by Jo, a Victim Rights Advocate, the story begins as Jo arrives at the