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My introduction to classical music was my Mom and Bugs Bunny cartoons, such as "Long Haired Hare".
That is just an example, there are several more Warner Bros cartoons featuring Bugs or other characters in a classical setting.
What do you think of them?
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I recall, clearly, telling my Dad that something he was playing sounded like cartoon music - pissed him off - until - one day he came home from work when a cartoon was on and said "Holy Shit" - that's good stuff!
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In fact, I can't think of a single Betty Boop cartoon that used classical music. I wonder why Betty Boop used jazz but Warner Brothers used classical. ????
Maybe because Warner Bros had Carl Stalling and Fleischer Studios didn't?
Happy listening,
Jim
Rather amusing CD.
Obviously this was more directly a 'music video'. A mouse comes out and Bugs chases it all over the keyboard to the tune of something--anyone remember the piece?
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As a baby boomer who spent way too much time indoors, I had some of my earliest exposure to the classical idiom via the Looney Tunes soundtracks composed by Carl Stalling. Great stuff.
Happy listening,
Jim
Stalling was definitely one of the people doing great scores back in the golden age of cartoons. Brings back many fond memories, some of which are discussed in this thread. Disney's Fantasia and Sorcerer's Apprentice were the best animated scores for me as a kid, but that Warner Bros. stuff was terrific.
Scott Bradley was another good one who worked for MGM and scored those Tom and Jerry shorts that ran in theaters before the main movie.
Anyone remember the one where a shoemaker goes to sleep and the shoes mend themselves to Nutcracker Suite music? Maybe someone knows if it's on Youtube?
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Great suggestion, but not the one I'm looking for, which is almost identical in concept to this one, but the music is from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, with a hungarian rhapsody or two thrown in for good measure.One of the Youtube responses to this video says the one I'm looking for was made by Warner Bros.
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Found it. Haven't seen this since I was a kid. These cartoons from back then were my intro to classical music.
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the way classical themes were woven into many of those old cartoons. I'm guessing that some very talented and serious musicians (European refugees?) needed the regular paycheck from that work.
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