11-18-2018, 09:46 PM
Fantasia is the one effort that Walt Disney made at ars gratia artis. It was a box-office flop, and Disney thought that he could add and subtract as needed to keep the project relevant. Disney Corporation, long after Walt's death, created a largely new manifestation (keeping the 'Sorcerer's Apprentice" scene and working in the introduction by Deems Taylor, to the basic effect
The three types of classical music are
1. overtly programmatic music, music intended to tell a story (Paul Dukas' Sorcerr's Apprentice)
2. music that though not overtly programmatic, suggests distinct actions or images (Beethoven's Sixth, or Pastoral Symphony, which Disney used as background for cavorting characters of Greco-Roman mythology)
3. music for its own sake to be appreciated for its structure, counterpoint, virtuosity, etc. -- Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
The Bach work is the start
Were I setting up such a cinematic imagery I might pick
1. as overtly programmatic work, Smetana's The Moldau, a colorful depiction of the course of a river
2. not intentionally programmatic, but creating its own images, Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin
3. music with no imaginable program such as the Concert piece for four horns and orchestra by Robert Schumann
... with some Handel, Mozart, Mahler, Sibelius, and Prokofiev slipped in... "Goofy" somehow needs to make an appearance, right?
Of course, I digress as there is an impressive Fantasia 2000 that is good. What's wrong with another one twenty years later? There's no shortage of great music, and no shortage of talented animators.
The three types of classical music are
1. overtly programmatic music, music intended to tell a story (Paul Dukas' Sorcerr's Apprentice)
2. music that though not overtly programmatic, suggests distinct actions or images (Beethoven's Sixth, or Pastoral Symphony, which Disney used as background for cavorting characters of Greco-Roman mythology)
3. music for its own sake to be appreciated for its structure, counterpoint, virtuosity, etc. -- Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
The Bach work is the start
Were I setting up such a cinematic imagery I might pick
1. as overtly programmatic work, Smetana's The Moldau, a colorful depiction of the course of a river
2. not intentionally programmatic, but creating its own images, Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin
3. music with no imaginable program such as the Concert piece for four horns and orchestra by Robert Schumann
... with some Handel, Mozart, Mahler, Sibelius, and Prokofiev slipped in... "Goofy" somehow needs to make an appearance, right?
Of course, I digress as there is an impressive Fantasia 2000 that is good. What's wrong with another one twenty years later? There's no shortage of great music, and no shortage of talented animators.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.