Blast Walt Disney!
SSOCIATION of ideas can be a fearsome -thing. Here am I _ switched on to listen to a Bach programme; the announcer tells me that we will now hear Stokowski’s arrangement of the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, and I sit back in rapt anticipation. Good heavens! What is this? The moment the music begins the room fades from my conscious sight, and on the dark maroon screen of mental vision I see yellow violin-bows dancing, accompanied soon by abstract cubisms in assorted. shapes and colours. The wretched things simply won’t go away. They are succeeded by. colossal waves of undulent violet against a peacock sky. It’s surrealist painting, a musician’s nightmare, an artist’s hangover. It’s appalling. In the end I switch off the beloved Bach and curse the day I ever went to see Walt Disney’s, Fantasia. How long will it be before my mind can listen again to the Toccata and Fugue and register nothing except music?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 292, 26 January 1945, Page 6
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162Blast Walt Disney! New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 292, 26 January 1945, Page 6
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