The dancing hippos, flying ponies and misbehaving brooms of Disney’s 1940 film Fantasia are indelibly etched into the minds of generations. For that reason, last night’s concert of musical works ...

When Walt Disney released “Fantasia” in 1940, the film revolutionized sound quality so futuristically that multichannel stereophonic “Fantasound” remained state of the art until Dolby and surround ...

Fantasia (1940), Walt Disney's grand experiment in marrying classical music to cutting-edge animation, initially flopped at the box office. Highbrow critics deemed the film's "cartoony" elements ...

This weekend, the New Jersey Symphony put on its proverbial sorcerer’s hat and delivered real magic. After opening the season two weeks ago with a gala concert celebrating their 10th year with music ...

Now why didn't anyone think of this before? When the Hollywood Bowl began showing films with live music, "Fantasia" should have been priority No. 1, given the Bowl's long, enviably rich ...

The National Symphony Orchestra's summer residency at Wolf Trap continued Friday and Saturday, providing live scoring for selections from the two Walt Disney "Fantasia" films (1940 and 2000). The ...

Fantasia, Walt Disney's animated masterpiece of the 1940s, grew from a short-subject cartoon picturization of the Paul Dukas musical piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Mickey Mouse was starred in this ...