Alphabet Associations - III

[LMcD]

... if LMcD will accept my apologies for my egregious pedantry -



- shall I go ahead and set my little E?



.

Why not?

[vinteuil]

Why not?

... thank you!

What E connects -

a) a French work underpinned by Berlioz and Mendelssohn
b) a French work containing a polka
c) a polka written in the US almost contemporaneous with (b)

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[cloughie]

Looks like more clues would be welcome, vints!

[Dermot]

Elephant

A) In Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals, the Elephant contains quotes from the dance of the sylphs from Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, and the scherzo from Mendelssohn's incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream.

B) Poulenc's L'Histoire de Babar, le petit elephant contains a polka.

C) Stravinsky composed Circus Polka for a Young Elephant.