The popular Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky -Korsakov is a welcome opportunity for every musician to demonstrate his or her technical skills. The Russian composer -pianist Alexander Rosenblattcomposed a virtuoso Piano arrangement of the famous theme which moves masterfully back and forth between jazz and classical music, thus being a 'cross -over ' work: bebop (a jazz style from the 1940s and 1950s) is added to 'Bumblebee ' which makes this work not only an amusing play on words ( 'Bumble -Bee -Bop ') but also a virtuoso concert piece which ought to be enjoyable for both performers and listeners alike.