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...About Fantasia: Probably no single occasion has demonstrated more compellingly the visual possibilities in great music. When you or I listen to the Nutcracker Suite, we have a vague picture of toy flutes, Chinamen, Arabians, sugarplum fairies--anything the program tells us to hear. When Walt Disney hears it, there are created whole new imaginative worlds of dewdrops, mushrooms, tadpoles, thistles, and autumn leaves. The more visual-minded you are, probably the more you will enjoy Fantasia; plenty of people on the other hand are going to find the patterns on the screen nothing but a distraction. Particularly...
...think Leopold Stokowski is kidding himself if he believes that Fantasia and others like it will be a means of bringing music to the masses. Music can be brought to the people only qua music. Diluting it, making it palatable with a sideshow, only takes attention away from it, and defeats its purpose. Certainly it cannot deepen the appreciation of music. Another point: If people get used to the glittery, theatrical quality of "Fantasound," the way it is projected from various wings in order to heighten effect, their ears are liable to be spoiled for natural musical sounds. But this...
...Angeles County Museum, put on an exhibition that did Disney justice. Los Angeles Museum's enterprising director, Roland J. McKinney, concentrated on showing the public how the technique of animation developed, step by step, from the flip-books and shooting-gallery slot, machines of the late 1890s to Fantasia...
...legs on an animation desk; 2) a model of the inside of a multiplane camera, showing how backgrounds and characters are photographed together from superimposed drawings on celluloid; 3) stage sets and sculptural models of Disney characters used by Disney draughtsmen as models for their drawings; 4) music from Fantasia, played softly on a public-address system through the museum's ventilating ducts; 5) (most popular) a 4-by-5 screen on which visitors, seated on wooden benches, could see a soundless 15-minute reel of excerpts from everything from Steamboat Willie to Pinocchio...
Schubert: Fantasia in C Major ("The Wanderer") (Edward Kilenyi, pianist, with orchestra conducted by Selmar Meyrowitz; Columbia: 6 sides; $3.50). Based in part on a Schubert song, expanded into a concerto by Franz Liszt, this glittering romantic work here gets its best recording to date...