The Educational MISSION of the WVSO is to provide opportunities for all learners to grow as individuals and to develop curiosity and creativity through a personal relationship with orchestral music.
Music inspired by Animals
Here is a list of music written with animal themes! What are you inspired to draw while listening to any of these pieces?
Share your drawings with us! Send to WV Symphony, PO Box 2292, Charleston, WV 25328, and we may feature you on our website.
Richman: Reindeer Variations (audio only)
Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo
Villa-Lobos: Magic Bird
Dvorak: Wild Dove (very soft start)
Kechley: Funky Chicken (string quartet)
Messian: Exotic Birds
Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
Daughtery: Flamingo
Rorem: Eagles
Handel: The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
He: Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto
Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
Gershwin: Walking the Dog
J. Strauss: Village Swallows
Peck: Voices of the Wood
Beckel: Waltz of the Animals
Griffes: White Peacock
Dvorak: Wild Dove
Schickele: Zoo Called Earth
Rossini: Thieving Magpie
Shchedrin: Seagull (ballet)
V. Thompson: Sea Piece with Birds
