Saturday, January 23, 2021
Friday, January 22, 2021
Day 22: And then we hear the Ave Maria, with its message of the triumph of hope and life over the powers of despair and death.-- Deems Taylor
Day 22: And then we hear the Ave Maria, with its message of the triumph of hope and life over the powers of despair and death.-- Deems Taylor
And then we hear the Ave Maria, with its message of the triumph of hope and life over the powers of despair and death.-- Deems TaylorThis comes to us when Deems introduces the final segment of the program, which is a double song feature of "The Night on Bald Mountain" and "Ave Maria". In "The Night on Bald Mountain", Chernabog, the king of all demons, comes to life and lets his scary demon minions run free for the night creating a nightmare for all to...Thursday, January 21, 2021
Day 21: He was a great nature lover, and in this symphony, he paints a musical picture of a day in the country. --Deems Taylor
Day 21: He was a great nature lover, and in this symphony, he paints a musical picture of a day in the country. --Deems Taylor
He was a great nature lover, and in this symphony, he paints a musical picture of a day in the country. --Deems Taylor This quote comes to us when Deems is introducing Beethoven's "The Pastoral". Deems talks about the liberties Walt Disney's Animators took with the symphony, changing the countryside setting Beethoven wrote about to that of Mt. Olympus.Before I started this week's quotes, all I knew of Beethoven was that he was a classical composer who...Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Day 20: Well, that isn't quite what I had in mind.-- Deems Taylor
Well, that isn't quite what I had in mind.-- Deems Taylor, FantasiaThis comes to us when The Soundtrack makes his first sound, which is a grating flop down the musical scale. Deems kinda asked for it when he asked for The Soundtrack to give any kind of sound. Have you ever had something happen that wasn't what you wanted? Perhaps someone answered a question of yours with an unexpected answer. Have you ever said this quote to anything? I find myself...Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Day 19: Now, watching him, I discovered that every beautiful sound also creates an equally beautiful picture.-- Deems Taylor
Day 19: Now, watching him, I discovered that every beautiful sound also creates an equally beautiful picture.-- Deems Taylor
Now, watching him, I discovered that every beautiful sound also creates an equally beautiful picture.-- Deems Taylor In this quote, Deems introduces The Soundtrack at the start of Act 2. The soundtrack is a string that goes through various changes to show many different types of instruments and tempos. The Soundtrack string goes from a fluid round line to sharp prickly lines as needed. Have you ever noticed this when you're hearing a soundtrack or...Monday, January 18, 2021
Day 18: You know, it's funny how wrong an artist can be about his own work.-- Deems Taylor
You know, it's funny how wrong an artist can be about his own work.-- Deems TaylorThis comes to us when Deems is introducing Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite segment. It is little known outside small circles that the great composer Tchaikovsky did not really like his work on The Nutcracker Suite. Yet it went on to become one of his most famous pieces, thanks in part to it being a now seasonal tradition to see the ballet at Christmas. However, in Fantasia,...Sunday, January 17, 2021
Day 17: Then the music begins to suggest other things to your imagination.-- Deems Taylor
Then the music begins to suggest other things to your imagination.-- Deems TaylorThis quote comes to us when the narrator, Deems Taylor, introduces us to the first music segment: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johan Bach, an instrumental song that is animated by the Walt Disney Animators. Do you ever listen to music? Do you listen to it because it's required for school or because it's playing in the background? Perhaps you just listen to it for fun....
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