"Fantasia" — Disney's landmark animated film from 1940 — featured classical music masterpieces, including Stravinsky’s "Rite of Spring" and Bach’s "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor." So when Chris ...

Now why didn't anyone think of this before? When the Hollywood Bowl began showing films with live music, "Fantasia" should have been priority No. 1, given the Bowl's long, enviably rich ...

Fantasia, Walt Disney's animated masterpiece of the 1940s, grew from a short-subject cartoon picturization of the Paul Dukas musical piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Mickey Mouse was starred in this ...

When Walt Disney released “Fantasia” in 1940, the film revolutionized sound quality so futuristically that multichannel stereophonic “Fantasound” remained state of the art until Dolby and surround ...

For generations now “Fantasia” has been both faulted for its highbrow pretensions and derided as lowbrow kitsch, frequently by the same critics and sometimes in the same sentence. But this 1940 ...