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Carnival

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Carnival

Concert overture by Antonín Dvořák, Op. 92, composed in 1891 and forming, with Amid Nature and Othello, a cycle with thematic connections originally called Nature, Life and Love.

It is also the title of a suite by Schumann; see Carnaval.


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At last, having seen the Parsee carnival wind away in the distance, he was turning his steps towards the station, when he happened to espy the splendid pagoda on Malabar Hill, and was seized with an irresistible desire to see its interior.
Here the buffaloes were in immense herds; and here they remained for three days, slaying and cooking, and feasting, and indemnifying themselves by an enormous carnival, for a long and hungry Lent.
{corso, of a carnival = the Corso, a main street in Rome, at Carnival time}
 
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