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Disney FANTASIA — Live In Concert
Disney FANTASIA — Live In Concert
with the Minnesota Orchestra
Sarah Hicks, conductor
Live at Orchestra Hall
Saturday, November 29, 2014, 8 pm
Sunday, November 30, 2014, 2 pm
Orchestra Hall
Orchestra Hall
Today’s program includes selected scenes from Disney Fantasia, a watershed cinematic experience
combining classical music and animation first released in 1940, and Fantasia 2000, which includes new
selections, alongside the original’s famous Sorcerer’s Apprentice segment, melding hand-drawn animation
with advancements in computer animation unimaginable at the time of the original Fantasia.
Allegro con brio, from Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Opus 67
Ludwig van Beethoven
Selections from Symphony No. 6 in F major, Opus 68, Pastoral
III. Allegro: Merry gathering of the country folk
IV. Allegro: Thunderstorm
V. Allegretto: Shepherds’ Song; Happy and thankful feelings
after the storm
ca. 11’
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Selections from Nutcracker Suite, Opus 71a
Claude Debussy/
orch. Leopold Stokowski
Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque
ca. 6’
Igor Stravinsky
Selections from The Firebird Suite (1919 version)
ca. 9’
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Amilcare Ponchielli
Dance of the Hours, from La Gioconda
ca. 12’
Paul Dukas
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
ca. 9’
Edward Elgar/
adapt. Peter Schickele Pomp and Circumstance, adapted from
Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches,
Opus 39, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4
ca. 8’
Ottorino Respighi
Selections from The Pines of Rome
MINN E S O T A O R CH ESTRA
SHOWC A SE
ca. 10’
Disney FANTASIA — Live In Concert
nov 29, 30
Fantasia (1940) and Fantasia 2000 (1999)
Sarah Hicks’ profile appears
on page 65.
Presentation licensed by
Disney Music Publishing and
Buena Vista Concerts,
a division of ABC Inc.
© All rights reserved.
In this age of 3D, HD, widescreen, 7.1 surround sound—and that’s just in your
living room!—it can be hard to fathom how revolutionary Fantasia was upon its
theatrical release in 1940. Neither symphony hall concertgoers nor families headed
to the movies to catch the latest Disney cartoon were prepared for the breadth and
depth of color and sound that poured forth from the screen. Walt Disney (19011966) and conductor Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977), in collaboration with the
talents of 1,000-plus artists, musicians and engineers—at the Walt Disney Studio;
the RCA Corporation; composer, author and commentator Deems Taylor (18851966); dozens of dancers (including Marge Champion and members of the Ballet
Russe de Monte Carlo and Ballet Theatre); and the entire Philadelphia Orchestra—
created a watershed cinematic experience that remains a visionary milestone to
this day. Sadly, the expense of installing the Fantasound audio playback system
in theaters, and the loss of the European market because of World War II, nixed
Walt’s dream of an ongoing “Concert Feature,” wherein individual segments would
be replaced by new ones. Though the Walt Disney Studio would utilize popular
songs in several package films of the ’40s and ’50s, it would not be until 1999 and
the release of Fantasia 2000, spearheaded by Walt’s nephew, Roy E. Disney, that a
Disney-produced feature-length marriage of classical music and animation would
once again reach the screen.
Excerpted from a program note by Alexander Rannie.
Mickey Mouse in one of his
most captivating roles—as the
title figure in The Sorcerer’s
Apprentice, a magician’s
assistant who causes all
manner of trouble when he
casts a spell he can’t undo.
Copyright © Disney.
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