“A painter paints his pictures on canvas. Musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music and you provide the silence.”— Leopold Stokowski
Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) Op. 30 - Fanfare : Tone Poem For Orchestra
Opus/Catalogue Number : Op.30 ; TrV 176
Year/Date of Composition : 1896By Composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Performed By Conductor Janos Sandor And The Hungarian State Orchestra
(Source: la-nero-maestro)
What she says: I’m fine.
What she means: Both Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 are brilliant and some of my favorite pieces of Disney animation. I mean, abstract visual representations of music? Dinosaurs set to “Rite of Spring?” Whales breaching in the sky to “Pines of Rome?” Greek mythological figures set to Pastoral symphony? Rhapsody in Blue? Night on Bald Mountain? The Sorcerer’s Apprentice? Pomp and Circumstance? THE FUCKING FIREBIRD SEQUENCE!? Fantasia and its sequel were both clearly ahead of their time. As a concept, Fantasia has potential to keep giving and giving and provide a means for Disney to both expose a young audience to classical music and jazz and experiment with their own animation styles and techniques and visual storytelling, but since neither were commercial successes, we’ll probably never see another Fantasia.
