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private performances, typically for the French mid-Lent festival of , but Saint-Saëns was adamant that the work would not be published in his lifetime, seeing it as detracting from his "serious" composer image.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
We Love You (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark song) "We Love You", AllMusic critic Dave Thompson wrote that the song "had all the makings of a smash [hit]", while praising its instrumentation and "splendidly anthemic chorus". He also observed "barely veiled lyrics with anti-militaristic intent". "Trouser Press" felt that the "catchy" track, along with previous single "(Forever) Live and Die", are the only worthwhile songs on "The Pacific Age". We Love You (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark song) "We Love You" is a song by British band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released as the second single from their 1986 album, "The Pacific Age". According to "Q", the "brilliant"