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Jerel 2021-12-09 08:01:21
Changing channels is a general prejudice of the illiterate against the classics, and tearing is an atonement for the shame of the sleepy ones.
Most of the violent things in this world come from the ignorant class. For example, when I was in a rural elementary school ten years ago, I neither knew music nor cared about the structure of the story. Give me the smallest person I can enjoy. In that era of illiteracy, Compared to Disney's...
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Winfield 2021-12-09 08:01:21
Short commentary notes: about the feelings of each track
"Fuge" is the pure sensibility in the brain, "Nutcracker" is the fairy law of reincarnation in the four seasons, and "Rite of Spring" is the primitive life walking and dying in the ancient wilderness.
Although I don’t like to use the life of the imaginary gods to replace the rural stories in the...
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Deems Taylor: [the soundtrack plays a minor scale on bassoon, ending on a very low note] Go on. Go on; drop the other shoe, will you?
Soundtrack: [it sounds an even deeper note, obviously the lowest]
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[longer introduction to "The Pastoral Symphony"]
Deems Taylor: The symphony that Beethoven called the "Pastoral", his sixth, is one of the few pieces of music he ever wrote that tells something like a definite story. He was a great nature lover, and in this symphony, he paints a musical picture of a day in the country. Of course, the country that Beethoven described was the countryside with which he was familiar. But his music covers a much wider field than that, and so Walt Disney has given the "Pastoral Symphony" a mythological setting, and the setting is of Mount Olympus, the abode of the gods. And here, first of all, we meet a group of fabulous creatures of the field and forest: unicorns, fawns, Pegasus the flying horse and his entire family, the centaurs, those strange creatures that are half man and half horse, and their girlfriends, the centaurettes. Later on, we meet our old friend Bacchus, the god of wine, presiding over a bacchanal. The party is interrupted by a storm, and now we see Vulcan forging thunderbolts and handing them over to the king of all the gods, Zeus, who plays darts with them. As the storm clears, we see Iris, the goddess of the rainbow, and Apollo, driving his sun chariot across the sky. And then Morpheus, the god of sleep, covers everything with his cloak of night as Diana, using the new moon as a bow, shoots an arrow of fire that spangles the sky with stars.
