1 00:00:12,500 --> 00:00:15,400 ...duty to welcome you here on the behalf of... 2 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:18,700 ...all the other artists, and musicians with combined talents... 3 00:00:18,700 --> 00:00:21,400 ...went in to the creation of this new form of entertainment: Fantasia. 4 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,400 What you'll see on the screen... 5 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,400 ...is a picture of various abstract images... 6 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:30,800 ...that might pass to your mind... 7 00:00:30,900 --> 00:00:34,000 ...if you seat in a concert hall, listening to this music. 8 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:40,500 Now, there are three kinds of music on this fantasia program. 9 00:00:40,500 --> 00:00:43,900 First is the kind that tells a definite story. 10 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:48,100 Then there's the kind that, while has no specific plot... 11 00:00:48,100 --> 00:00:52,200 ...does paint a series of more or less definite pictures. 12 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,300 And there's the third kind; music that exist simply for tones sake. 13 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,200 And the number that opens out Fantasia program... 14 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,200 ...is music of this third kind. 15 00:04:08,900 --> 00:04:13,400 You know, what's amazing is that many of these musicians are playing for the very first time. 16 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Thanks to Steve Martin's two week Master Musician Home Study Course. 17 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,600 More about that later. 18 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,600 Hello and welcome to Fantasia 2000. 19 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:29,400 It's been more that 60 years since Walt Disney and his artists teamed up... 20 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,600 ...with Maestro Leopold Stokowski to create a film they titled: The Concert Feature. 21 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,300 I think, we're all glad that they changed the name to Fantasia. 22 00:04:36,300 --> 00:04:39,700 You know, Fantasia was meant to be a perpetual work in progress. 23 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:45,200 Every time you went to see it, you'd experience some new pieces along of some old familiar favorites 24 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,900 But that idea felt by the way side until now. 25 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,500 So, let me turn things over to the great Itzhak Perlman... 26 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:56,000 ...who, I've just been informed, plays the violin. 27 00:04:56,100 --> 00:04:58,200 Well, so do I. Can I have my violin, please? 28 00:04:58,900 --> 00:05:00,400 Ah, thank you. 29 00:05:00,700 --> 00:05:03,600 All right, boys. Hoo. Oh, sorry. 30 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:06,800 Could I have another string thingy please? Oh, and camera back on me? 31 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:08,600 Camera back on me! 32 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:20,900 When you hear a title like Pines of Rome, you might think of tree line streets and romantic ruins. 33 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:24,000 But when the Disney animators heard this music... 34 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,700 ...they thought of something completely different. 35 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:31,700 Here is the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro James Levin... 36 00:05:31,700 --> 00:05:35,400 ...performing Ottorino Respigi's Pines of Rome. 37 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:11,600 Hi. Next, we're gonna take you to the streets of New York City... 38 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,900 ...for piece that's been inspired by couple of my favorite artists. 39 00:16:14,900 --> 00:16:17,300 First, there's the illustrator Al Hirschfeld, 40 00:16:17,300 --> 00:16:22,300 who's been drawing celebrities and Broadway stars for most of the 20th century. 41 00:16:22,300 --> 00:16:25,200 And then, there's the composer and song writer George Gerschwin, 42 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:29,400 who took Jazz off the streets, dressed her up and took it to the concert hall. 43 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:33,500 My friend Ralph Grierson plays piano on this next number. 44 00:16:33,500 --> 00:16:39,900 And it all starts with the single slinky note on the clarinet and a simple line on a piece of paper. 45 00:16:40,100 --> 00:16:43,800 Ladies and gentlemen, Rhapsody in Blue. 46 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,100 Hi. You may not know this, but over the years... 47 00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:26,300 ...the Disney artists have cooked up dozens of ideas for new Fantasia segments. 48 00:29:26,300 --> 00:29:28,600 Some of them made it to the big screen this time... 49 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:34,700 but others, lots of others - how can I put this politely - didn't. 50 00:29:35,100 --> 00:29:38,800 For example: The Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen... 51 00:29:38,900 --> 00:29:42,600 ...drew these sketches for a segment inspired by Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. 52 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,900 Here they are. And there they go. 53 00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:50,200 Now, Salvador Dali, you know, the limp watches guy... 54 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:54,500 he got in to the act with an idea that featured baseball as a metaphor for life. 55 00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:57,400 How come that didn't work? Makes perfect sense to me! 56 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,600 Let's see. Then, we had a bug ballet, and a baby ballet, and for a time, 57 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,700 they even considered the sequence inspired by the polka and the fuge. 58 00:30:06,700 --> 00:30:10,000 From Weinberger's Schwanda, the bagpiper. 59 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,900 But finally - a success. 60 00:30:12,900 --> 00:30:18,600 The Disney artists wanted to create a short film based on Hans Christian Anderson's wonderful fairytale - 61 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:23,100 The Steadfast Tin Soldier. But they could never find the perfect musical match. 62 00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:24,100 Until now. 63 00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:29,700 Here is Yefim Bronfman playing Schostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2... 64 00:30:29,700 --> 00:30:32,300 ...and the Steadfast Tin Soldier.