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private performances, typically for the French mid-Lent festival of , but Saint-Saëns was adamant that the work would not be published in his lifetime, seeing it as detracting from his "serious" composer image.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
Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals with new material. (Bugs, unlike most of the other regular Looney Tunes characters, had not appeared in any of the outsourced productions distributed under the Warner Bros. banner from 1964 to 1969.) Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig Michael Tilson Thomas as Himself "Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals" is available on VHS, but this television special was also released on the "" DVD along with "Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over" and "Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales". Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals (originally aired as