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Classical Music

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sir pball

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Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:09 PM Jun 2014

Ya know, the Bumblebee was meant to fly with an orchestra.. [View all]

I did not know this, and neither did my classical pianist dad. Flight of the Bumblebee was originally an orchestral interlude, which, after much digging and Google-fu:

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But then a guy named Sergei got his hands on it, and turned it into this pianist's nightmare (seriously, if your hands move this fast...well, I envy your sexual partners!):

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