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"Imagine attending a concert including excerpts from Ludwig van Beethoven’s
5th Symphony, Ottorino Respighi’s
Pines of Rome, George Gershwin’s
Rhapsody in Blue, Dmitri Shostakovich’s
2nd Piano Concerto, Camille
Saint-Saëns’s
Carnival of the Animals, Paul Dukas’
The Sorcerer’s
Apprentice, Edward Elgar’s
Pomp and Circumstance, and Igor Stravinsky’s
Firebird Suite – all packed into 74 minutes.
Sounds like a fantastic concert! But this isn’t a classical music concert in
the traditional sense. This is the program for Disney’s
Fantasia 2000, which
premiered 25 years ago today at Carnegie Hall, New York City, as part of a
five-city concert tour of live orchestra and screened animation before its
theatrical release the following year.
For years,
Fantasia 2000 flew under my radar; I thought the only
Fantasia
was Disney’s 1940 original. Like many, the original film was my introduction to
classical music at an early age.
My parents, frustrated by my endless rewatching, gave me headphones to listen
to the soundtrack instead. They didn’t anticipate me shouting out the names of
the animated sequences for every piece (“Dancing Mushrooms!”).
Unlike my childhood enthusiasm, Walt Disney himself had a more ambivalent
relationship with classical music. While he attended concerts, he famously fell
asleep during a performance of Bach’s
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. That nap
inspired a visual sequence that would later open the 1940
Fantasia.
For Disney, music often served his primary goals: advancing animation
techniques and storytelling."
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
