Discover the Timeless Beauty of Handel's The Messiah on Kids' Classical Hour

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

This week, The Kids' Classical Hour will be about Disney music.

If you don't have a station with the same satillite feed out of Boston that my local station has, you can log on to the WFMR web site and listen online.

9:00 AM Central - in about 20 minutes from now.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

One more plug to put this at the top of page 1 and then I'll shut up about it.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

The Kids' Classical Hour is doing the Carl Staling project - that's Looney Tunes caroon music, folks!Right now!You can hear it on http://wfmr.com/"Be vewy qwiet - I'm hunting wabbit!"

 

[chefann]

Kill de wabbit, kill de wabbit!My spear and magic helmet!Well what did you expect from an opera, a happy ending?

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

What's that buzzing I hear? It's Wagner, spinning in his grave!

[Cartoon opens, scenes of Elmer directing a storm.]- The Flying Dutchman overture

(Elmer)
Be very quiet ~ I'm hunting wab-bit! - general opera recitative-style music

- From Ride of the Valkyries from The Valkyries:
(Elmer)
Wabbit twacks!!!
Kiww the wabbit, kiww the wabbit, kiww the wabbit
Yo ho to oh! Yo ho to oh! Yo ho...

- Siegfried's Horn Call from The Ring Cycle:
(Bugs)
O mighty warrior of great fighting stock
Might I enquire to ask, eh, what's up doc??

(Elmer)
I'm going to kiww the wabbit!! - Ride of the Valkyries


(Bugs)
Oh mighty warrior t'will be quite a task
How will you do it, might I enquire to ask?? - Siegfried's Horn Call

- General recit. music:

(Elmer)
I will do it with my speaw and magic hewmet!
(Bugs)
Your spear and magic helmet?
(Elmer)
Speaw & magic hewmet!
(Bugs)
Magic helmet?
(Elmer)
Magic hewmet!
(Bugs)
[Sarcastically, aside to audience]Magic helmet.
(Elmer)
Yes, magic hewmet and I'ww give you a sample!

[Elmer gives a sample of his power] - Flying Dutchman overture

(Bugs)
Bye!
(Elmer)
(That was the Wabbit!)

[Chase scene] - General chase music

- Overture to Tannhauser:

[Bugs appears, dressed as Brunhilde, riding on a white horse. Elmer is stupefied.]

(Elmer)
Oh Bwunhilde, you'We so wovewy
(Bugs)
Yes I know it I can't help it!
(Elmer)
Oh Bwunhilde, be my wove!

[Ballet scene] - Bachanal from Tannhauser

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- Tannhauser Overture:

(Elmer)
Wetuwn my wove, a wonging buwns deep inside me
(Bugs)
Return my love, I want you always beside me
(Elmer)
A wove wike ouws must be
(Bugs)
Made for you and for me.
(Bugs & Elmer)
Wetuwn, won't you weturn my wove, for my wove is youws!
[Bugs' helmet and wig slide down the stairs, revealing Bugs as a wabb...er...rabbit]
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- Ride of the Valkyries:
(Elmer)
I'll kill the wabbit!
Awise stowms!
Nowth winds bwow, south winds bwow!
Typhoons, huwwicanes, eawfhquakes. . . SMOG!
Fwash wightning! Stwike the wabbit!

- Tannhauser overture:
(Elmer)
What have I done?? I've kiwwed the wabbit....
Poow wittow bunny, poow wittow wabbit...

[Elmer walks away carrying Bugs in his arms] - Tannhauser overture
(Bugs, aside to audience)
Well, what did you expect in an opera, a happy ending???

 

[chefann]

We watched What's Opera Doc about 6 times in a row on the last day of class when I took Wagner's Ring Cycle in college. Having just spent the previous 3 weeks watching and discussing all 4 of the ring cycle operas, we thought it was hilarious. And the 12 or so of us in the class tended to sing Brunhilde's theme (yo ho two-oh!) whenever we saw eachother around campus, including in the cafeteria. Sadly, we were not the oddest people on campus.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

What's Opera Doc? has been voted the #1 animated short of the 20th Century and rightfully so.(Carl Staling was a genius and he didn't do What's Opera Doc?!!!)S M O G ! ! !I bet the average movie goer had no idea what that meant.

 

[chefann]

I know Stalling didn't do Opera, but no concert of cartoon music would be complete without it!Leopold, Leopold! (A reference that today's viewers don't understand.)

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Just another Mickey Mouse operation.