For your Sunday pleasure: with a warning: Cartoon slapstick violence and lots of laughs!
If cartoon violence bothers you, this post is not for you!
Growing up (or even as adults), did you watch cartoons like Bugs Bunny or Tom and Jerry?
Years ago, I have a memory of someone giving my spouse a Christmas gift of a cassette tape of cartoon music. He enjoyed it a lot but it's been lost to the ages.
Recently, my Facebook feed contained a link to an article on "how a whole generation learned classical music from listening to old cartoons."
Yes, it's true, and here are three examples. Here's a take on music from 1816 and Rossini's Barber of Seville.
Bugs Bunny and the Rabbit of Seville.
It got me to thinking - perhaps this cartoon would be frowned on today, with the shooting and Elmer Fudd chasing Bugs Bunny with an axe.
But I laughed and enjoyed it. On our daily walk, I asked spouse if he remembered "The Rabbit of Seville". He said it was one of his favorite Bugs Bunny cartoon. He liked the music he heard in the cartoons and never realized, until later, that he was receiving a musical education.
Here's another - Tom and Jerry and Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 in C Sharp Minor". Moral: never mess with a mouse living in a piano.
Bonus: short clip of Bug and the William Tell Overture in a chase scene.
If you want more remembering, join me tomorrow for #MusicMovesMe and listen to songs about remembering.
...sometimes looking back these seem out of place buy todays standards.
ReplyDeleteI love those old cartoons.
ReplyDeleteCartoon violence actual bothers me more now. The honeymooners bothered me and still does. How Jackie Gleason bullied everyone in the apartment.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on and stay safe
Yes, cartoons were educational.
ReplyDeleteElmer Fudd doesn't have a gun in the new cartoons. I think that's silly, because he never does get Bugs! Yosemite Sam is missing his pistols too. But, there is dynamite and other violence blowing characters up, so really, why? I never wanted a gun because Elmer had one, or because all the cowboys on shows I watched to see horses had them. I didn't start smoking because the Marlboro Man did, and I loved those ads, he rode a horse! Were kids smarter?
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little, there was a cartoon show set to classical music. I only remember because my mother commented on it.
ReplyDeleteAlana,
ReplyDeleteThat kind of violence pails in comparison to what kids are exposed to these days. Those saying otherwise have a crazy twisted thought process. The cartoons of yesterday were not only hysterically funny but as you pointed out introduced to young minds classical music without them even knowing what was going on. lol Thanks for putting a smile on my face!