I went to see the film "Fantasy 2000", of Disney this Saturday.  A very
nice repertoire with a very good performance by James Levine.  I preferred
Stokovski, on the first film but The Shostakovich Conc was very good, and
also Stravinski and Respigui's.  Not good was his Rhapsody in Blue, with a
funny cartoon.  It started with Beethoven's 5th first mov, and went though
Respighi, Saint-Saens, Shostakovich [2nd Piano Conc.  to Anderson's tale
of the plumb soldier with a broken leg], Stravinski, Dukas, Gershwin, and
others.  Between the musics a narrator appears to talk about the next
music.  I would prefer without it.  Too much talking for a film for kinds
- the average age was around 7 years old [lots of young moms] but surprised
me how children got so silent.  Perhaps dreaming, yet my son Douglas (2
and a half years old) payied attention to all the movie without sleeping
screaming or taking the eyes out of the screen for a second.  Maybe I go
see it again this next Saturday.

Renato Vinicius Diniz de Carvalho
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