Word: fantasias
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...Baby. Dumbo is already a legend at the Disney studios. He arrived there in manuscript form (authors: Helen Aberson & Harold Pearl) in the spring of 1939. Everyone was feeling out of sorts. They had shot the works on Pinocchio and Fantasia. Disney's artists were tired of tracing blueprints for their prodigal perfectionist boss. They wanted a chance to express themselves...
...Banner, published last week, bore those words on the cover. The words and music were by a sometime modernist ear-splitter, a onetime Russian aristocrat, Igor Stravinsky. At first toot, the author of the raucous thumps and blats of The Rite of Spring (played in Walt Disney's Fantasia) hardly seemed a likely rearranger for the national anthem. But the Stravinskian Star-Spangled Banner, despite its slight Russian accent, is a genuinely spacious and stirring piece. It should be welcomed by conductors who, under the ukase of Boss James Caesar Petrillo of the musicians' union, now play...
...from being merely a stunt, an Adler-Draper recital is genuinely expressive and musicianly. The pair perform solos in turn-Adler with a movement from a Bach concerto, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Ravel's Bolero, etc., and Draper with taps to a Scarlatti pastorale, a Bach fantasia, The Blue Danube waltz. When they get going together, their act is a production...
Some musicians attribute Stokowski's musical deliquescence to Walt Disney's enormously successful Fantasia, in which the conductor was flatteringly spotlighted. Next month Stokowski leaves Manhattan for Hollywood, to make more Disney pictures...
Dumbo (Disney; RKO Radio) takes Walt Disney back to the animals. His fifth full-length cartoon movie, profiting from the shortcomings of its predecessors, is notable for its freedom from the puppeteering of Snow White, the savage satire of Pinocchio, the artiness of Fantasia, and the woolgathering of The Reluctant Dragon. Like Three Little Pigs, Dumbo is a catchy fable with a moral...