Am i missing something, or was there no there there?

...especially Ravel's remix.

Ah, Fantasia. Quality. Decades ahead of its time. Shame Disney hasn't kept pushing the envelope and instead went the global domination route.

Walt Disney exposed more average people to classical music than anyone. From Fantasia, to Bugs Bunny cartoons, he helped make the music live in the lives of people who otherwise wouldn't ever listen.

sharkcellar @ 2:

One of my favorite pieces of music ever. This and Mussorgsky's 'Pictures At An Exhibition' just floor me.

I love the original Pictures At An Exhibition, but I also love the
ELP version.

Medical Diagnosis by Video @ 8:

America still gets its education from Disney.

One of the great performances I attended, of many, was the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa doing the Rite of Spring. Just fantastic.

And I didn't need the assistance of that rotten corporate monstrosity to hear and appreciate it.

I agree, Seiji was a master, and I attended many performances of BSO during my 7 years in Boston. I was there for one at Tanglewood too.

Cosmic Eye Candy
The music is Clair de Lune by Debussy, performed by Isao Tomita.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N56b8AfeMeE

Debussy's 'Sunken Cathedral' and Scriabin's 'Vers de Flamme' are pretty bitchin' too.

Too bad Disney did not realize the talent of Gustav Mahler.
That odd little Jewish guy with the funny walk had to disavow his religion to direct the Vienna Symphony.
An incredible sacrifice but his body of work is there for all the world to hear.
Not to take anything away from Stravinsky, but too bad for Mahler fans that his music was pretty much ignored until the 80s and 90s.

Pina Bausch Wuppertal Dance Theater

Le Sacre Du Printemps

ballet to fight about

Tomitas Gardens in the rain by Debussy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y8KyRKvFx8

Bugs Bunny

Maestro

in fact, Bugs was Warner Bros., not Disney

This video reminds me of the cover art on ELP's PAAE -

http://youtube.com/watch?v=shdErPjtjK8

Super Karate Monkey Death Car @ 23:

Bugs Bunny

Maestro

in fact, Bugs was Warner Bros., not Disney

I knew that! Really, I did.... Oops....I goofed ;)

I used to have a bunch of these bookmarked, but most have now been deleted: "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc."

but here's one that survived:
Corny Concerto

I'm fighting/debating a whiner over on the Glenn Beck blog. Anybody know of any great wine/whine songs I can deliver to her? I've already used UB40's Red Red Wine, but I think I'm forgetting my favorite Wine songs ...

Stanley Rosenthal @ 29:

I'm fighting/debating a whiner over on the Glenn Beck blog. Anybody know of any great wine/whine songs I can deliver to her? I've already used UB40's Red Red Wine, but I think I'm forgetting my favorite Wine songs ...

Kisses Sweeter than Whine??

2x, K(eep)I(t)S(imple,)S(tupid) is defintely better than whining. :-) I'm thinking of using it on her (but it's not one of the Wine songs I'm thinking I've forgotten about.)

Stanley Rosenthal @ 33:

2x, K(eep)I(t)S(imple,)S(tupid) is defintely better than whining. :-) I'm thinking of using it on her (but it's not one of the Wine songs I'm thinking I've forgotten about.)

The only other one I could think of was Days of Wine and Roses, but I don't think that would work...

Pelican

Dead Between the Walls

oh yeah, that's the stuff

I'm gonna use Days Of Wine And Roses on her too. I think that's one of the Wine songs that I had forgotten about. ThanX LG!

Super Karate Monkey Death Car @ 37:

Pelican

Dead Between the Walls

oh yeah, that's the stuff

Never heard of them. Reminds me very much of Metallica. I Like.

LG, I was thinking that was something to the song that I can't remember which went something like "Bottle of whine, fruit of the vine" and I can't remember much more of the tune I'm thinking of, but I know it's not the Patsy Cline tune ...

Starchild

The Futurist

Sabb disciples

tim @ 40:

If you liked Fantasia you owe it to yourself to check out the far superior "Allegro Non troppo"

The disney realization of this is really, well, underwhelming. Actually, it's perfectly dreadful.

Wow, I don't know this, but it looks great.
bolero 1
Valse Triste

and the wikipedia article is interesting too.

thanks

ThanX LG, but no luck is nec. I'm in total control over there, thanX to my skill. And thanX to Chris Achorn for pointing me the WAY over to there. :-)

Yup, fifth. From Wikipedia:
* Emerson, Lake and Palmer (1970) #4 UK, #18 US
* Tarkus (1971) #1 UK, #9 US
* Pictures at an Exhibition (live) (1971) #3 UK, #10 US
* Trilogy (1972) #2 UK, #5 US
* Brain Salad Surgery (1973) #2 UK, #11 US
* Karn Evil 9 (1974) (live) #5 UK, #4 US
* Works, Vol. 1 (1977) #9 UK, #12 US
* Works, Vol. 2 (1977) #20 UK, #37 US
* Love Beach (1978) #48 UK, #55 US
* In Concert (live) (1979) #79 US
* Black Moon (1992) #78 US
* Live at the Royal Albert Hall (live) (1993)
* Works Live (1993)
* In the Hot Seat (1994)
* I Believe In Father Christmas (1995)
* Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 (live) (1997)
* Live in Poland (live) (1997)
* Reworks: Brain Salad Perjury (2003)

My favorites are Tarkus, BSS, PAAE and Works 1 and 2

2x @ 38:

Stanley Rosenthal @ 32:

ELP: Karn Evil 9 (complete) -

http://technohippie.com/geeklog/public_html/mediagallery/media.php?s=200...

Benny The Bouncer -

http://technohippie.com/geeklog/public_html/mediagallery/media.php?s=200...

Still ... You Turn Me On -

http://technohippie.com/geeklog/public_html/mediagallery/media.php?s=200...

(all from their obviously incredible 4th album Brain Salad Surgury)

Great stuff. These guys were a teenage stoners dream! Umm, not me of course, but, umm, oh, never mind.

Ha! You couldn't help it. I saw them in a stadium when I was 15, and I got stoned from the fallout.

Shit!

Eric Burden and War, "Spill the Wine."

I don't recall the Elton John song at all (but I was never much of a fan of his, so that's not much of a surprise I guess), but Spill The Whine is definitely something I've heard before (but I don't think it was one of my faves to forget. I think I'm gonna use that against her anyWAY, it was definitely a BIG tune)

Stanley Rosenthal @ 57:

I don't recall the Elton John song at all (but I was never much of a fan of his, so that's not much of a surprise I guess), but Spill The Whine is definitely something I've heard before (but I don't think it was one of my faves to forget. I think I'm gonna use that against her anyWAY, it was definitely a BIG tune)

So what's this thread you're involved in? link?

Stanley Rosenthal @ 29:

I'm fighting/debating a whiner over on the Glenn Beck blog. Anybody know of any great wine/whine songs I can deliver to her? I've already used UB40's Red Red Wine, but I think I'm forgetting my favorite Wine songs ...

'Tiny Bubbles (In the Whine)' - Don Ho

Oops... I dropped back into my over and over again thing tonight. This time it's Chris Rea's Nothing to Fear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWHGqXY5jCk

Stanley! Don't mess with those people! You'll get a headache.

99, it's too bad that you didn't post that comment on comment #66. Because it seems to me that you've got it all backwards. I'm not getting a headache, I'm giving them headaches.

Keith Jarrett, living up to his "difficult genius" reputation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB9mMABRM0c

When I was a teenybopper all the bad boys listened to those bad boys, and it was thrilling!

Strange, did my last comment get caught in the spam filter?

The term seems to be (because I don't think that it's C&L doing it, C&L generally comments the reason for any deletion/editing if it isn't obvious) the "bitbucket". The "bitbucket" is where all comments go when they dissappear, according to the online jargon file (New Hacker's Dictionary).

"In 1913 the Paris premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s revolutionary score for Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) by Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes caused a riot (literally)."

This is an overstatement. While Stravinsky's ballet score made innovative use of polymetrics that some would refer to as "violent," what really inspired the riot was the visual component of the ballet (the actual dancing -- Vaslav Nijinski's choreography). Nijinsky's concept for this ballet was overtly untraditional and graceless, completely antithetical to the classical dance aesthetic of the day, and that is what really sent the crowd over the edge.

I'm getting confused, I think. Isn't Stravinsky the guy who invented the Violin???? ;-)

Stanley Rosenthal @ 79:

I'm getting confused, I think. Isn't Stravinsky the guy who invented the Violin???? ;-)

Are you perhaps thinking of Stradivarius? Who of course didn't invent it either.

How's the battle going on the 'pages of reason'? ;-)

Stanley Rosenthal @ 79:

I'm getting confused, I think. Isn't Stravinsky the guy who invented the Violin???? ;-)

A Stradivarius is a stringed instrument built by members of the Stradivari family, especially by Antonio Stradivari.

2x @ 80:

99 @ 78:

I guess their voices are so imprinted here that I don't hear the similarity... like nobody can tell my mom and my sister's voices from mine, but they don't even sound like each other to me. They connect on the bad boy plane for me.

I think it's primarily when they hit the lower tones for me, their growling voices perhaps. I don't know, but I remember thinking it even as a kid.

Nice music on your page BTW, and are you from NE? Boston area perhaps?

Born and raised in Marin County, California. Live two inches from the Oregon Border and three inches from the Pacific now. Very Northern California girl. I'm wishing to be whisked off to... a cave in China or a Pacific atoll or Newfoundland... anywhere... these days! :-P

I'm really glad you like my page... thanks.

Ah, the reason that I asked about Boston area is because of the first item on your page, Michael Hedges your old neighbor who died on 128. I was thinking of the 128 corridor.

I'm in SF, for the last 14 years, but currently wishing to be 'whisked' off to a small Greek island, a pacific atol (SCUBA!) or Costa Rica..., or many many other places, so I can relate!

Michael Hedges lived in Mendocino County, California when I lived there. There's a bunch of redwood trees to the right of the frame, just off camera, in that video....

We're like the Dixie Chicks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hntXAO_Rq7c

99 @ 91:

We're like the Dixie Chicks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hntXAO_Rq7c

;-)

Ya, a cowboy or whoever.

T-Rex was a scavenger. Google it

Not to take anything away from Stravinsky, but too bad for Mahler fans that his music was pretty much ignored until the 80s and 90s.

Ignored by whom? Some of the greatest recordings of Mahler's music were made in the 1950's and 1960's (in fact, one of the best recordings of Mahler's 4th Symphony was Willem Mengleberg's recording with the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam in 1939). Probably the best known champion of Mahler's music was Leonard Bernstein who regularly included Mahler's music in NY Philharmonic concerts when he was the orchestra's music director. Bernstein recorded the complete cycle of Mahler's symphonies twice--the first for Columbia in the 1960's and the second for Deutsche Grammophon in the 1980's.

"... how America got introduced to this incredible music via Walt Disney’s Fantasia."

Yes, Disney and Bugs did much for the musical awakening of a generation of "Americans". But who, or what, will do it now?

On this thread we have everything from one poster calling Stravinsky "classical", to another thinking he "invented the violin", and to another who corrected him by saying it was "Stradivarius". (The violin existed long before Stradivari's opened their shop.)

Oh well - at least we have Rock 'n Roll!