Episode 478: Music of Fantasia

If you work at any of the Disney studios or theme parks, in any of their wide range of properties, you can say you work for the “Mouse.” In 1940 the release of Fantasia was built on what was known as a Silly Symphony. It was the story of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice. With that one eleven and a half minute composition by Paul Dukas, the Disney staff assembled seven other classical music favorites and along with a silhouette of Leopold Stowkoski and the Philadelphia Orchestra and wonderful animation and the first ever use of stereo sound for the two hour feature film Fantasia.

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  Northwestern Symphonic Wind Ensemble,
  Mallory Thompson
Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy
from “The Nutcracker Suite”
  P.I. Tchaikovsky
  US Air Force Band, Lowell Graham
Trepak from “The Nutcracker Suite”
  P.I. Tchaikovsky, arr. Mayhew Lake
  US Air Force Band, Lowell Graham
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  Paul Dukas
  US Army Field Band,
  Lieutenant Colonel Timothy J. Holtan
Adoration of the Earth
​from “The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps)”
  Igor Stavinsky, trans. M. Patterson
  University of Houston Wind Ensemble, Eddie Green
Night on Bald Mountain
  Modest Mussorgsky
  Stadtharmonie Zurich Oelikon-Seebach, Carlo Balmelli