Excerpt from Jim Hill’s article, “What’s Opera, Doc?” celebrates the marriage of animation and classical music:
“As the lights went down in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater this past Friday night, the curtain rose to reveal Leopold Stokowski taking the conductor’s stand in Fantasia. But the first notes of the evening were not from that 1940 classic feature. But — rather — from the tinny, half-destroyed instruments that Goofy and the gang played in that Mickey Mouse favorite, “The Symphony Hour.”