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Good day.
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My name is Deems Taylor,
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and that makes me happy
to welcome you
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on behalf of Walt Disney,
Leopold Stokowski
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and the other artists,
whose joint efforts
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has created this new form
for entertainment: Fantasia.
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What you will now see,
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are the ideas
drawings and stories,
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which music has inspired
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a number of artists to.
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In other words: this is not
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interpretations by professional musicians.
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Which is probably for the best.
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There are three kinds of music
in this Fantasia program.
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The first is the kind
that tells a specific story.
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Then there is the kind
that has no specific plot,
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but paints a row
more or less concrete images.
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Finally, there is a third kind;
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music that only exists
for his own sake.
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The number that
that opens our Fantasia program,
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Toccata and Fugue,
is music of this third kind,
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what we call absolute music.
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Even the title has no meaning beyond that
to be a description of the musical form.
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You will see a film on the screen
the various abstract images,
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that might appear in your thoughts,
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if they were sitting in a concert hall
and listened to this music.
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At first you are more or less
aware of the orchestra.
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Our movie begins
with a number of impressions
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by the conductor and the musicians.
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Then the music begins
to direct the mind to other things.
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They could be, well, just masses of color.
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Or maybe they are cloud formations
or magnificent landscapes
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or faint shadows or geometric
figures floating in space.
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Here follows
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Toccata and fugue in D minor
by Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Interpreted in drawings
by Walt Disney and his associates
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and performed by
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra,
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conducted by Leopold Stokowski.
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It happens that an artist
misjudges his own work.
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Tchaikovsky could not stand it
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His Nutcracker Suite,
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perhaps his most popular play.
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There are a number of dances
taken from a full-length ballet,
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Called The Nutcracker,
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for whom he once composed
the opera house in St. Petersburg.
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There was no further success,
and nobody performs it these days,
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but I'm pretty sure you recognize
the suite's music when you hear it.
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However, let me point out that you do not
get some nutcrackers to watch here.
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Only the title of him remains.
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Now follows a piece of music,
that tells a very specific story.
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Indeed, the story came
in this case first,
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and the composer wrote the music,
so it fit.
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It's an almost
2000 year old history.
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A fairy tale about a wizard,
who had an apprentice.
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He was a nimble young fellow
very eager to learn the trade.
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Actually, he was a little too quick,
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because he began
to perform the most difficult magic arts,
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before he had learned
to master them.
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One day, for example,
when his teacher had told him,
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that he should carry water and fill
the witch's cauldron, he had the brilliant idea
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to bring a broomstick to life,
who could carry the water for him.
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It worked very well,
to start with.
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Unfortunately he had forgotten
the spell,
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who could get the broom handle
to stop carrying water,
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and thus he had begun something,
he couldn't stop.
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Mr. Stokowski, Mr. Stokowski...
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Congratulations!
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You're right, Mickey.
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Many thanks!
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Hello so long!
See you!
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Goodbye.
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Then Igor Stravinsky
wrote the ballet Spring Sacrifice...
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I repeat,
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then Igor Stravinsky
wrote the ballet Spring Sacrifice,
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was the intention
to "describe primitive life".
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Walt Disney and his cartoonists
took him at his word.
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Instead of showing the ballet
in the original way,
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as a series of tribal dances,
have they regarded it as a pictorial poem
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about the origin of life.
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And the story that you will see,
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is not the product of anyone's imagination.
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It is an accurate representation of the
that according to science happened
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in the first billion years
of our planet's existence.
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Science, not art,
wrote the screenplay for this film.
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According to science
were the first living things here
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unicellular organisms,
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tiny white or green blobs
not of anything definite,
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who lived in the water.
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And as the ages passed,
the seas began to swarm
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with all sorts of sea creatures.
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Finally, after about a billion years,
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crawled certain fish,
who were more ambitious than others,
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onto land and became the first amphibians.
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And then, for several
hundred million years ago,
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nature took a different direction
and created the dinosaurs.
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The name "dinosaur"
derived from two Greek words,
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meaning "terrible lizard".
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And at least they were.
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They came in all shapes and sizes,
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from small, crawling monsters
about the size of a chicken
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to a hundred-ton nightmare.
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They weren't very quick.
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Even the largest had only
a brain like a dove.
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They lived in the air and in the water,
and also on land.
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As a rule, they were vegetarians,
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quite friendly
and easy to get out of it with.
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But there were bullies
and gangsters among them.
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The worst of them, the brute fellow,
was called tyrannosaurus rex,
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was probably the most evil killer there
ever walked the earth.
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The dinosaurs were the creatures
heads for about 200 million years.
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And then... Well, we don't quite know,
what happened.
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Some scientists believe
that major droughts and earthquakes
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made the world
into a giant pile of dust.
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In any case
the dinosaurs were wiped out.
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This is where our story ends.
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Where it begins is at a time,
there is so infinitely far to go,
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when there was no life on earth at all.
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Only vapor clouds,
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bubbling seas and exploding volcanoes.
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Now imagine that you are out in space
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billions of years back in time
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and looks down on this lonely,
torment the planet,
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swirling through empty space.
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And now follows a 15-minute break.
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Before we begin
on the second part of the program,
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I would like to present
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one of the most important elements in Fantasia.
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He is very shy and withdrawn,
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and I ran into him
at the Disney studios.
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I suddenly realized,
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that he is not simply an indispensable
member of the organization,
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he is also a true master, what that
white canvas concerns, like no one here
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have noticed.
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That is why
my great pleasure to present...
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the soundtrack.
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Come now.
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Not so shy.
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It was good, soundtrack.
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I noticed that every beautiful sound
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forms an equally beautiful picture.
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Will the soundtrack be this nice
to produce a sound?
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Come now.
Just some sound.
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It wasn't quite that,
I had intended.
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Can we not see and hear the harp?
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Then one of the strings.
Maybe the violin?
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And then a wind instrument... the flute.
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Very beautiful.
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And then we must have
a brass player. The Trumpet.
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Absolutely fine. And so what
a deep instrument, the bassoon?
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Keep going, keep going.
Finish it.
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In the end we can see
on some of the percussion instruments.
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First the bass drum.
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Many thanks for that.
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Beethoven's Sixth Symphony
he called The Pastoral.
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One of the few of his works,
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that tells something
towards a story.
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He was a great lover of nature,
and in this symphony
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he paints a picture in tones
of a day in the countryside.
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Beethoven describes a landscape,
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which he knew so well.
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But his music goes much further,
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so Disney has shelved Pastoral-
symphony to a mythological landscape.
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And that landscape is Mount Olympus,
abode of the gods.
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And here we meet first
a group of fabulous creatures
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from the fields and forests,
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unicorns, fauns,
pegasus, the flying horse,
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and all his family, the satyrs,
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these strange creatures,
who is half human, half horse.
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And their lovers, the satyrs.
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Later we meet an old friend,
Bacchus, god of wine,
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who presides over a drinking layer.
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The party is interrupted by a storm.
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And here we see Vulcan,
who forges thunderbolts
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and gives them to the king of the gods, Zeus,
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who plays darts with them.
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When the weather clears up,
we see Iris, the rainbow goddess.
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And Apollo driving
its solar vessel across the sky.
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And then Morpheus, god of sleep,
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who covers everything with his nightgown,
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while Diana,
who uses the new moon as a bow,
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shoots an arrow of fire,
that covers the sky with stars.
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The next one is one of the most famous
and popular ballets ever.
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Dance of the Hours
from Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda.
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It is a show during today's hours.
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We'll see first
a group of dancers in costumes,
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reminiscent of the delicate light of dawn.
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Then another group enters,
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dressed up to represent
the shining sun at noon.
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When they retreat,
a third group enters
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in costumes reminiscent of the delicate tones
in the early evening.
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And then a final group,
all in black, the gloomy night hours.
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Suddenly the orchestra breaks out
in a fantastic finale,
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in which the dark hours are overcome
of hours of light.
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It all unfolds
in the large hall with adjoining garden
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on the Venetian nobleman
Alvise Badoero's castle.
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Last number in the Fantasias program
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is a compilation of two pieces,
which are so vastly different
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in structure and atmosphere,
that they unite as perfect opposites.
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The first is A night on Bloksbjerg
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by one of Russia's greatest composers,
Modest Mussorgsky.
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The other is Franz Schubert's
world famous Ave Maria.
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In music and pictures are depicted
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the battle between
the profane and the spiritual.
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Bloksbjerg is according to tradition
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a gathering place
for Satan and his companions.
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Here on Valborg's Eve,
which corresponds to Halloween,
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the creatures of evil gather
to worship their master.
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During his bewitchment
they dance as if furious,
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until the break of dawn
and the sound of church bells
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causing the diabolical army to prowl
back to their dark dwellings.
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And then we hear Ave Maria
with the message of the triumph
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of hope and life
over the power of despair and death.