Word: fantasias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...witness, one Samuel I. Goldberg, took the stand. Mr. Goldberg testified that his 13½-year-old son Richard returned from a camp last summer full of Communist ideas. The boy's camp counselor was a City College biology tutor. When the tutor recently invited Richard to see Fantasia with him, Papa said "No." The boy sulked. But last week Richard announced sunnily: "Daddy, you are right. I see Mr. Weisman's name in the paper. He's a Communist." Replied Mr. Goldberg: "Daddy's always right...
...view of the controversy it has aroused, "Fantasia" is worthy of reappraisal. While some critics have out shouted the Hollywood press agents in praising it, others have termed it a "bastard hybrid of art and music, the unfortunate result of mating Leopold Stokowski and Minnie Mouse...
...Light Brigade" to "Face on the Barroom Floor" might be applied to a work entitled by its composer "Sunset in Peaceful Valley." For some people music does not call out mental pictures: when it does they are different for each listener. The key to the complaints about "Fantasia" is that some critics do not like having the sketches from Disney's mind superimposed upon their own differing or non-existent mental photos. It's like going to see a movie after having read the book from which the show was adapted--all the changes, even changes for the better...
Entering the theatre already equipped with personal imagery for the music is a handicap, but the most expert of musicologists can thoroughly enjoy "Fantasia" if he will make a little effort at mental flexibility to meet the draftsmen balfway...
...30Review of "Fantasia." 7:35 Concert Master: Gilbert and Sullivan 8:30 A program of Ballads: Wallace Stegner, Instructor in English. 8:45 Frannie Powers, Mike Brody, and others in return engagements with Wheaton field hockey team. 9:00 Hot Off the Record. 9:30 Radio Workshop Production. 9:45 Crimson Concert Hall: Grieg, Lyric Suite. Corelli, Christmas Concerto. Spanish Civil War Songs. 10:45 Bed Time Story. 10:55 News...