ENTERTAINMENT
By Lori Sears | April 3, 1997
Fantasia on Ice'Skates will be dancing across the ice this weekend, as the Columbia Figure Skating Club brings its spring ice show, "A Fantasia on Ice," to the Columbia Ice Rink.See more than 135 trained skaters, including more than 100 children, perform to the music of "The Lion King" and "Pocahontas." And enjoy the classic French children's story "Madeline" as it is brought to life on the ice through expressive skating and Parisian music.Performances will be on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. at the Columbia Ice Rink, 5876 Thunder Hill Road in Columbia.
NEWS
By MIKE BURNS | March 30, 1997
IT WAS A sanguine tragedy of the utmost horror: infanticide, fratricide, kidnapping, abduction, beheading and burning at the stake.Plus, it had great music.So why was I suppressing an impulse to laugh during the Baltimore Opera Company's creditable performance of "Il Trovatore" last week?Because scenes from the Marx Brothers comedy "A Night at the Opera" kept flashing into my mind. An old film that spoofs grand opera, including Verdi's "Trovatore," in the unique style of those madcap comics.
NEWS
By Frank D. Roylance | February 15, 1993
He's been dead for 243 years, but Johann Sebastian Bach can still draw a crowd.Yesterday, hundreds of music lovers made their way to St. David's Church in Roland Park for all or part of the 17th annual Baltimore Bach Marathon -- 7 1/2 hours of nonstop Bach organ music played by 15 of the area's best church organists."
FEATURES
By Scott Duncan | July 18, 1993
Remember the day Richard Wagner met Elmer Fudd?If you grew up watching cartoons -- and chances are, you did -- you know it came in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, "What's Opera, Doc?"For millions, the first brush with Wagner's "Die Walkuere" came not in the stentorian soprano of Birgit Nilsson, but in the glottal rasp of Elmer's fractured Valkyrie melody:"Kill da wabbit, kill da wabbit . . ."A similar collision occurred in "Fantasia," when Walt Disney set -- Tchaikovsky, Dukas and Ponchielli to animation of balletic hippos, hopping mushrooms and dancing brooms.
FEATURES
By New York Times News Service | July 18, 1993
Q: My husband and I are interested in going through the Panama Canal, but not on a cruise. Is there any way we can do it?A: The short answer to this, one of the most-asked of all travel questions, is yes: Argo Tours of Panama conducts partial transits of the canal every other Saturday and full transits twice a year.The partial transits leave at 8 a.m. from Dock 17 in Balboa on the Pacific Ocean side of the canal.The ship sails though the Miraflores Locks and cruises Miraflores Lake up to Pedro Miguel Locks, but does not enter the locks.
FEATURES
By SUSAN REIMER | December 28, 1993
Because I believe that children have a spiritual life that can be touched by the fine arts, I am attempting to introduce mine to what our mothers might have called culture.It is not going well.Because I believe that in the arts, children can find a way to express what they feel but cannot say, because I believe the arts can give them fun and joy and a way to calm the turmoil inside, I have not only paid for pottery classes and painting lessons and dance camp, but I also have bought tickets to ballets and symphonies.
FEATURES
By Los Angeles Times | January 12, 1992
Sales receipts for Walt Disney's videocassette release of "Fantasia" multiplied faster over the holidays than the horde of pail-toting brooms conjured up by the Sorcerer's Apprentice. Unavailable on videocassette until November, "Fantasia" has already sold 13 million units to distributors, forcing Disney at one point to stop taking orders because copies couldn't be made fast enough.The success of the Disney classic, however, raises questions for film lovers about other vintage movies that have never been released on videocassette:*"Annie Get Your Gun," the 1950 film version of the Irving Berlin Wild West musical with Betty Hutton and Howard Keel.
FEATURES
By Orlando Sentinel | May 7, 1992
The Philadelphia Orchestra Association slapped the Walt Disney Co. with a lawsuit yesterday, claiming it deserves half the $120-million videocassette profit from the animated classic "Fantasia."The Philadelphia Orchestra's "musical performance, name and likeness were used throughout the movie," the suit said, and "no contract or agreement" gives Disney the right to use its performance without compensation.The civil lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. Besides half of "Fantasia''s estimated profit, the suit seeks unspecified punitive damages.
FEATURES
By Stephen Hunter | August 20, 1992
The temptation is to go too far and proclaim "One False Move," which opens today at the Charles, a masterpiece, the best movie of the year, blah blah blah. Of course it isn't. But it's a hell of a movie.The picture almost slipped into oblivion, and much praise goes to Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, who championed the movie on their nationally syndicated television show, and pretty much invented its life ever since.This is exactly the sort of film Hollywood has forgotten how to make: the small-scale, extremely tense, character-driven thriller, so bitingly authentic that in its last few moments, when its antagonists come together, guns drawn, and you know that someone's going to die, it's heartbreaking.
FEATURES
By Los Angeles Daily News | July 25, 1991
LOS ANGELES -- Walt Disney's animation classic "Fantasia" will be updated with several new segments now being created for release in 1996-97, it was recently announced.The revamped version, to be called "Fantasia Continued," will fulfill Disney's original wish to keep the 1941 film fresh by periodically replacing some old segments with new ones, the studio said in a news release."We would . . . change the program just like the ballet does," Disney said when "Fantasia" was released.Details about the new segments and which old ones would be dropped were not released.