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Tag Archives: Nutcracker Suite
Fantasia Live at Lincoln Center
View animation from Disney’s golden age, side by side that of today’s generation. Sequences from Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 will be screened at Lincoln Center in New York City, accompanied by a live symphony orchestra . By your tix today! … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Disney, Fantasia
Tagged Lincoln Center, Mushrooms, Nutcracker Suite, orchestra
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Mushrooms can Dance!
When Michael Culhane was ten years old, he interviewed Art Babbitt in his family’s home, about how Art animated Fantasia’s Mushroom Dance, and he little protagonist, Hop Low. “Where did Hop Low come from?” I asked him. Mr. Babbitt told … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Animation, Dance, Disney, Fantasia, Film, music
Tagged Art Babbitt, Bill Hurtz, Culhane, Elmer Plummer, interview, Jules Engel, Mushrooms, Nutcracker Suite, Tchaikovsky
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