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...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...
...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...
...Disney hired him to teach drawing and composition in the training school on the Disney lot, soon promoted him to the job of color coordinator. His main job: matching Technicolor reproductions with original colored sketches made by other Disney artists. When Disney went to work on his artistically ambitious Fantasia, Phil Dike made sketches for Toccata & Fugue, Night on Bald Mountain, Ave Maria...
...Walt Disney's "Fantasia," new cinema form which visualizes music, presents among others the work...