TOCCATA AND FUGUE IN D MINOR PLUS

Organists come together in lockdown for BachвЂ™s most famous organ work Q: What is the collective noun for a group of organistsДЄ: Watch live online premiere of BachвЂ™s most famous organ work and decide for yourself. The entire segment is nothing short of mesmerizing and it contains animation that stands out among the entire Walt Disney Animation Studios catalog.Organists from cathedrals across the UK are part of a 54 strong orchestra that have come together in lockdown to create a virtual performance of BachвЂ™s most famous organ work, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, to raise funds for the Cathedral ChoirsвЂ™ Emergency Fund.

TOCCATA AND FUGUE IN D MINOR PLUS

Plus it predated films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Koyaanisqatsi in its use of music and imagery to convey drama rather than narrative and dialogue. It was also the first use of abstract animation in a mainstream Hollywood film. Not only was Toccata and Fugue DisneyвЂ™s first abstract animation. Still if you look at FischingerвЂ™s art, you can see the similarities to the art style of FantasiaвЂs first segment. The German abstract artist Oskar Fischinger who had previously worked on some early sci-fi films with Fritz Lang before arriving in Hollywood was a huge inspiration on this segment and Walt had actually hired Fischinger to work on it between 19, but Fischinger left the production because he was not used to having to compromise with his art, which was something he had to do when working for a visionary like Walt Disney, and so he ended up being uncredited. Cy Young would later go on to work on the effects in the Disney films Dumbo, Bambi and Make Mine Music.

Lye was an Englishman who painted directly onto the film itself to create his art, and because BachвЂ™s composition neither sought to tell a story nor paint a picture but was instead just absolute music, Walt chose it to accompany his first foray into abstract animation.Дisney effects animators like Cy Young, who had animated on many of DisneyвЂ™s Silly Symphonies before being hired to animate the effects in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, had experimented with abstract animation before Walt had even met Stokowski and so Walt put Young in charge of the effects animation in Toccata and Fugue. Although Walt had shown interest in abstract films since the 1930s when he first saw Len LyeвЂ™s film Colour Box. In fact, until the Toccata and Fugue segment was created for Fantasia, Disney had never made an abstract art film before. That last kind is the version that went against WaltвЂ™s instincts as a storyteller the most. Leopold Stokowski and Deems Taylor had told Walt Disney that there are three different kinds of music: music that tells a story, music that paints a picture and music that exists for its own sake.

It was essentially a sneak preview for what the rest of the film would be like when the animators took over. Even the way that the musicians were shown playing their instruments served as a showcase for the stereo effect of Fantasound.

The images of an orchestra playing BachвЂ™s вЂњToccata and FugueвЂќ in the filmвЂ™s opening scene were lit in creative and colorful ways that were striking at a time when most films were still in black & white. There is neither a narrative nor any characters in this first segment as it serves purely as a showcase for the skills of the musicians and the animators who put to the screen their interpretation of what one might picture while listening to an orchestra. The segment that opens Fantasia begins with Leopold Stokowski in silhouette conducting the piece atop his podium as images of the orchestra (in silhouette and shadow) are flashed onto the screen in bold Technicolor and lighting, soon leading to abstract images of shapes in the sky resembling violin bows, strings, chords, rolling hills, sparkling confetti, shafts of light and cathedrals in the clouds. Animation directed by Samuel Armstrong.Music written for the organ by German composer Johann Sebastian Bach in the 1700s.

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