Q 01/05

How many animated segments make up Fantasia?

A) Six

B) Seven

C) Eight

D) Ten

Answer · why

C) Eight

Seven are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra; The Sorcerer's Apprentice was recorded earlier with Hollywood session players.

Q 02/05

Who conducts the music in Fantasia?

A) Arturo Toscanini

B) Irwin Kostal

C) Eugene Ormandy

D) Leopold Stokowski

Answer · why

D) Leopold Stokowski

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

Which music critic acts as Fantasia's on-screen master of ceremonies?

A) Deems Taylor

B) Virgil Thomson

C) Olin Downes

D) Leonard Bernstein

Answer · why

A) Deems Taylor

Disney and Stokowski had both heard him doing intermission commentary on New York Philharmonic radio broadcasts.

Q 04/05

Which two newcomers had overtaken Mickey Mouse in popularity by 1936?

A) Pluto and Minnie

B) Chip and Dale

C) Oswald and Horace

D) Donald Duck and Goofy

Answer · why

D) Donald Duck and Goofy

Walt's answer was a deluxe Sorcerer's Apprentice short that went beyond the usual Silly Symphony slapstick into sheer fantasy.

Q 05/05

Who composed the music for The Sorcerer's Apprentice?

A) Camille Saint-Saëns

B) Maurice Ravel

C) Paul Dukas

D) Claude Debussy

Answer · why

C) Paul Dukas

Both the piece and the cartoon draw on Goethe's 1797 poem Der Zauberlehrling.

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