In 1949 the American synchronized swimmer Beulah Gundling created a routine inspired by Fokine's choreography and entitled The swan to Le cygne by Saint-Saëns.
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In Leonard Bernstein's famous recording of the piece with the New York Philharmonic the melody is performed on double bass by a 20 year old Gary Karr.
La Cygne, Kansas | Notre-Dame-des-Missions-du-cygne d'Enghien | Le Cygne | Bottle en ''col de cygne'' (Swan neck duct) used by Louis Pasteur |
Sharpe recorded for HMV starting in 1915 with a number of short pieces for solo cello, for example The Broken Melody by Van Biene (1915), Le Cygne by Camille Saint-Saëns (1916), Roses of Picardy by Haydn Wood (1918) and Salut d'Amour by Edward Elgar (1919).