Fantasia 1940

My niece has really been spending a lot of time with me, so I like to subtly expose her to music she might not hear. I figured the best introduction she could get to classical, would be one of the ways I was exposed. Fantasia, while I find modern releases of it to be appalling, it is still a good film. I was watching it, and was reminded of how beautiful Disney's art was back then. It kind of saddens me, that they don't do animation work on that level anymore. In fact without Pixar, they wouldn't have any output.

It's a shame they didn't make more Fantasias. Fantasia 2000 was okay, but wasn't really on the level that the original was. Beethoven's 5th was a war of Nacho chips? Fantasia made a lot of lesser known pieces, standard repertoire. I think good quality sequels could have done the same. I'm also shocked that neither film contained any Mozart, Brahms, Handel, Ravel, or Wagner pieces.

I know a Fantasia 2006 was proposed, but never finished. Some pieces ended up being shorts.