[Smt-talk] Fantasia/was Rite of Spring Animation

[Nicole Biamonte]

The whole of Fantasia isn't up on YouTube, but various excerpts are.
In this clip, the instruments of the orchestra are introduced:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTM48pwoXAo

And here's the animation for the Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4MQ7GzE6HY

Both of these (especially the fugue) have abstract animations of the music
similar to (although not exactly the same as) those Judith describes.

All best,
Nicole

NicoleBiamonte
McGill University
nicole.biamonte at mcgill.ca



On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Clendinning, Jane <
jclendinning at admin.fsu.edu> wrote:

>  Judith,****
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> I think the video you are referring to is from Disney’s movie Fantasia
> (1940), which was in theatrical release in 1963 and again in 1969.  There
> are several movements from the *Nutcracker Suite* in the video, with
> animation, along with *The Sorcerer’s Apprentice* and other classical
> music.  I clearly recall seeing this movie in a theater when I was young,
> too.   It was not like anything we had ever seen, and I had the soundtrack
> album at home, too—one of the few Classical albums I heard before high
> school.****
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> About 15 years ago, the Big Bend Community Orchestra, which I played horn
> in at the time, did something interesting with the video—we provided the
> sound of the pieces by performing them live, synchronized to the images.
> It was fun for the orchestra members—and challenging—as well as being very
> entertaining for the audience.  That is a community service orchestra made
> of amateurs, retired professional musicians, and professional musicians
> playing on their second or third instruments, and the audience was full of
> children, some of whom came up on stage for part of the concert to watch
> and listen from among the orchestra.****
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> Anyway, that’s likely the one you saw.  I have the Fantasia VHS, but not
> time now to cue it up and check to see if the video matches your
> description . . . and Disney assiduously pulls down any videos from
> YouTube, so it is not there, though the album soundtrack is
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7_udO2jo6k****
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> All best regards (to Judith and to list-readers!)****
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> Jane****
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> Prof. Jane Piper Clendinning****
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> Florida State University****
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