It’s just that I was at a loss~

Alessandro 2022-12-18 19:06:48

In this week’s symphony appreciation, when talking about "music image" and "art image", I included excerpts from this disc. There was one at home very early, but only the image of The Sorcerer's Apprentice in my mind, the cuteness of mickey and broom The story, as for the others, is very fresh, and I read it from beginning to end after returning home.
What a feeling, it's probably been ten years, and after the last time, music expresses people's understanding and sound of the objective world, as well as people's feedback and summary of life experience. Over the past ten years, the accumulated experience has formed a completely different feeling from that of childhood.
When I watched Fantasia when I was young, I only remembered the Mickey section, which probably has nothing to do with the music. After all, that piece is the most plot-like in the whole game. I am afraid that I finally found a story after watching the whole game. The other ones must be a little boring for myself when I was a child. It’s far less satisfying than Tom&Jerry’s funny plot. I have some impressions of the whales in Pines of Rome. Is it the imprint of the grand theme?
now what? Whether it's watching or listening, it's not so innocent, it's mixed with too much of my own thoughts.
Starting from the familiar "Bei Fifth", the hammer sound of destiny is reflected alternately in black and white and color. The first second is a completely black and white world. With each hammer, colorful butterflies fly and seem to give the world hope, but it is only a flash in color. , The world has returned to black and white again, and more tenacious resistance is needed. Another impressive picture is of two lonely colored paper butterflies fluttering in the air, surrounded by large black phantoms of black paper butterflies, such a large area of ​​darkness is about to swallow the world, the colored paper butterflies are injured, but still flying, Toward a certain unknown color. The huge darkness carried by destiny rages in the invisible places, gradually approaching and surrounding, but even if it is dying, he still has to spread his wings, escape the darkness, escape the absurd and terrifying reality, and fly to the light and hope in the distance. Remember that the front part of the picture is mostly dominated by color, while the second half is dominated by extreme darkness and extreme contrasting colors. Maybe our life is the same? The warmth that has never felt sad since I was young is gradually approaching the reality of this world?
Pimes of Rome is an image that is completely separated from the theme, but it is a perfect combination with the music, the blue imagination, and the tension of the music itself, it is a good aesthetic experience.
Rhapsody in Blue, New York in the last century, how could so much helplessness have been mixed with it? The little worker wakes up in the dark and repeats his work every day. He is penniless but looks like a desolate silhouette of a passerby in a suit and leather shoes. The middle-aged man who wants to be familiar with the image of a capitalist is bound by his family and life, and the cute little girl is My mother was dragging the rush and oppression of learning this and that, and the rush of passersby on the street in the morning matched the fast pace of crowded New York... As the picture turned, all of a sudden everyone looked into the distance, pinning their expectations on the ice. The free gallop of ballet... Entering the night, everyone has the opportunity to realize their expectations. Xiao Gong rushed to jazz pub and picked up the drumsticks; Passerby found a job in the night shift on the construction site, and thus had a share of income; The young man had a one-night free indulgence; the little girl and the two previous ice ballet dancers seemed to form a seemingly harmonious "family of three", full of joy. Well, it's just the satisfaction of this night, right? When the sun rises tomorrow, everything will return to the original state, and each of them will continue their own helplessness. This is life.
Pomp & Circumstance, the screen uses Donald Duck to interpret the theme of Noah's Ark. I wonder if this is the theme of the music itself? Why didn't you have any impression of Donald's passage when you were young? Probably I can't understand such a theme at all, and I can't figure out the meaning of so many animals squeezing into a boat inexplicably and returning to the earth after experiencing violent storms. No matter what the circumstances, I seem to be looking forward to the grand theme coming after the storm, the rainbow that is expected to appear on the horizon, the world that is destined to suddenly become colorful, and the time when everything is reborn. But if the reason for thinking of Noah's Ark is just to preserve the lingering veins of the world, then should it be so joyful or so sad?
Firebird Suite, the picture fits the melody again, the spring girl came to the earth but was resisted by the firebirds. The breath of death in winter overwhelmed the endless life that appeared too easily, but the thriving spring would always be after some resistance. When it comes, the hope of rebirth is the final result. Life always bursts out with surging power after sufferings, and grows faster and faster, bearing the mark of vicissitudes left by the years, but it is so full.
Father said that his impression of the disc was mainly Rhapsody in Blue, because he was trying to understand the music more deeply. I don’t know what kind of experience it will be if I revisit it again in ten years.
Is the N-degree creation of music a constant perception of life?
It doesn't matter when you prefer to understand it, it's more of a feeling of "just lost at the time".

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Fantasia 2000 quotes

  • Bette Middler: Hi. You may not know this, but over the years, the Disney artists have cooked up dozens of ideas for new Fantasia segments. Some of them made it to the big screen this time. But others, lots of others - how could I put this politely - didn't. For example, the Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen drew these sketches for a segment inspired by Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries." Here they are, and there they go. Now, Salvador Dali, you know, the "limp watches" guy, he got into the act with an idea that featured baseball as a metaphor for life. How come that didn't work? Makes perfect sense to me. Let's see. Then we had a bug ballet and a baby ballet and for a time, they even considered a sequence inspired by the Polka and the Fugue from Weinberger's "Schwanda the Bagpiper." But finally, a success. The Disney artists wanted to create a short film based on Hans Christian Andersen's wonderful fairy tale The Steadfast Tin Soldier, but they could never find the perfect musical match until now. Here is Yefim Bronfman playing the Shostakovich "Piano Concerto Number 2" and The Steadfast Tin Soldier.

  • Penn: [introducing "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"] Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to take a moment, if we may, to talk about a little something we like to refer to as magic.

    Teller: [finger quotes]

    Penn: Uh, picture this. You're at home, hosting a birthday party for your daughter, and you've just shelled out 50 bucks so some pathetic loser can pull a mangy rabbit out of a flea market hat. At first, you might wonder to yourself, "How did he do that?" But then *you* would probably just dismiss it as some sort of a trick. And you know something? You'd be right! It's just a trick! It's an example of what we laughingly refer to as "stage magic." We're here to tell you that all stage magic is a fraud, a hoax, a sham. It's all based on deception and, yep, *lyin'*! All of it. Sleight of hand...

    Teller: [pulling out cards]

    Penn: Lies! Transformations?

    Teller: [pulls out an axe]

    Penn: Fraud! Dismemberment?

    Teller: [cuts a fake hand]

    Penn: Rip-off! Fake! All are illusions. What we're here to talk about is real magic. We're gonna bring out a guy now who's the real deal, the genuine article. In fact, he taught us everything we know. And he is featured prominently in the next sequence from the original Fantasia, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." Y-You know, come to think of it, The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a - is, is a little guy who, uh - who never speaks and just kinda messes everything up...

    Teller: [cuts Penn's hair]

    Penn: [quietly] Like him. And now...

    Teller: [interrupts Penn]

    Penn: Wha - And now, the...

    Teller: [pulls out a rabbit]

    Penn: Oh. Hi. Hi, little fella. I gotta - I gotta - And now, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."