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what I had in mind.
Suppose we hear and see the harp.
Now one of the strings.
Say, the violin.
Now one of the woodwinds. A flute.
Very pretty.
Now, let's have a brass
instrument, the trumpet.
All right.
Now, how about a low instrument,
the bassoon.
Go on. Go on!
Drop the other shoe, will you
To finish, suppose we see
some of the percussion instruments,
beginning with the base drum.
Thanks a lot, old man.
The symphony that Beethoven called "The Pastoral"
his sixth, is one of the few pieces of music...
he ever wrote that tells
something like a definite story.
and in this symphony
he paints a musical picture...
of a day in the country.
Of course, the country
that Beethoven described...
was the countryside
with which he was familiar.
and so Walt Disney has given
the "Pastoral Symphony"
a mythological setting.
and that settings is of Mount Olympus,
the abode of the gods.
And here, first of all, we meet o group of fabulous creatures...
of the field and forest--
unicorns, fawns,
Pegasus the flying horse
and his entire family,
the centaurs, those strange creatures
that are half man and half horse...
and their girlfriends,
the centaurettes.
Later on, we meet our old friend
Baccus, the god of wine,
presiding over a baccchanal.
The party is interrupted
by a storm.
and now we see Vulcan
forging thunderbolts...
and handing them over
to the king of all the gods, Zeus.
who plays darts
with them.
As the storm clears, we see Iris,
the goddess of the rainbow...
and Apollo, driving his sun chariot
across the sky.
And then morpheus,
the god of sleep,
covers everything
with his cloak of night...
as Diana, using the new moon
as a bowl,
shoots an arrow of fire
that spangles the sky with stars.
Now we are going to do...
one of the most famous and
popular ballets ever written--
the "Dance of the Hours"...
from Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda".
It's a pageant of
the hours of the day.
We see first
a group of dancers...
in costumes to suggest
Then a second
group enters...
dressed to represent
the brilliant light of noon day.
As these withdraw,
in costumes that suggest
the delicate tones...
of early evening.
Then a last group,
all in black,
the sommer hours
of the night.
Suddenly, the orchestra bursts
into a brilliant finale...
in wich the hours of darkness...
are overcome
by the hours of light.
All this takes place in the great hall,
with its garden beyond,
of the palace of Duke Alvise,
a Venetian nobleman.
The last number in
our "Fantasia" program...
is a combination of
two pieces of music...
so utterly different in construction and mood
that they set each
other off perfectly.
The first is
"A Night on Bald Mountain"...
by one of Russia's
greatest composers,
Modeste Moussorgsky.
The second is Franz Schubert's
world-famous "Ave Maria."
Musically and dramatically,
we have here a picture...
of the struggle between
the profane and the sacred.
"Bald Mountain,"
according to tradition,
is the gatherin place
of Satan and his followers.
Here on Walpurgisnacht, which is
the equivalent of our own Halloween,
the creatures of evil
gather to worship their master.
Under his spell,
they dance furiously...
until the coming of dawn
and the sounds of church bells...
send the infernal army
slinking back...
into their abodes of darkness.
And then we hear
the "Ave Maria,"
with its message
of the triumph and hope of life...
over the powers
of despair and death.
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