Walt Disney was one sneaky guy. He used his beloved Mickey Mouse to trick whole generations of kids into listening to classical music. And though he’s long gone, Disney is still at it. The music and ...
In fact, that magical sugar plum melody has turned up so often over the decades in everything from “Fantasia” to Verizon ads that your kids may already know it. But additional listening to “The ...
When the Colorado Symphony sets out to recreate scenes from the Disney film “Fantasia” this Saturday, clarinetist Andy Stevens may have a particularly easy job of it. Stevens owns the bass clarinet ...
When Walt Disney released “Fantasia” in 1940, the film revolutionized sound quality so futuristically that multichannel stereophonic “Fantasound” remained state of the art until Dolby and surround ...
Famously, composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky did not enjoy writing The Nutcracker, and remained unsatisfied with it after completion. Disney’s adaptation, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, would not ...
As Polygon’s entertainment team geared up for our screening of The Nutcracker and the Four Realms — re-reading the Nutcracker story, rewatching the better Fantasia segments — we discovered that many ...
In fact, that magical sugar plum melody has turned up so often over the decades in everything from “Fantasia” to Verizon ads that your kids may already know it. But additional listening to “The ...