Q 01/05
A) Six
B) Seven
C) Eight
D) Ten
Answer · why
Seven are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra; The Sorcerer's Apprentice was recorded earlier with Hollywood session players.
Q 02/05
A) Arturo Toscanini
B) Irwin Kostal
C) Eugene Ormandy
D) Leopold Stokowski
Answer · why
He met Walt at Chasen's restaurant in Hollywood, liked the Dukas piece and offered to conduct The Sorcerer's Apprentice for free.
Q 03/05
A) Deems Taylor
B) Virgil Thomson
C) Olin Downes
D) Leonard Bernstein
Answer · why
Disney and Stokowski had both heard him doing intermission commentary on New York Philharmonic radio broadcasts.
Q 04/05
A) Pluto and Minnie
B) Chip and Dale
C) Oswald and Horace
D) Donald Duck and Goofy
Answer · why
Walt's answer was a deluxe Sorcerer's Apprentice short that went beyond the usual Silly Symphony slapstick into sheer fantasy.
Q 05/05
A) Camille Saint-Saëns
B) Maurice Ravel
C) Paul Dukas
D) Claude Debussy
Answer · why
Both the piece and the cartoon draw on Goethe's 1797 poem Der Zauberlehrling.
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