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...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 in the Bach Toccata and Fugue. To many, the swirls, squirls, blobs, and blotches of color on the screen were boring and meaningless. To me they were an exciting visualitation of exactly what happens in the mind when a Bach fugue is played. I agree with those who disliked Disney's Pastoral Symphony because...
...Deems Taylor, welcomes the audience, on behalf of Leopold Stokowski and Walt Disney, to "an entirely new form of entertainment." When he finishes, Leopold Stokowski himself, his back to the audience, steps into the picture, raises his arms, and the great orchestra swirls into Bach's D Minor Toccata and Fugue...
...recital, which is free and open to the public will include Partita Sopra by Walther, Concerto in G By Vivaldi-Bach, and Toccata in F and Prelude and Fugue in E Minor by Bach...
Broker Dennis advocated severe penalties for radio stations permitting such swing raids. Immediate cause of this protest was a broadcast swing version of Bach's D Minor Toccata. Scolded indignant Mr. Dennis: "By no stretch of the imagination could such performances be tolerated except by people of no discrimination. If this is permitted to go unchallenged, swing renditions of the Mass in B Minor will follow...
Also included on the program are Strauss's "Till Eulenspiegel," a Shostakovich Symphony (Op. 10), and Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, arranged for orchestra by Leo Weiner...