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.
