BM> Most of us have heard that Disney is working on a 
 BM> sequil to _Fantasia_,
 BM> presently saddled with the inventive title of _Fantasia II_. I haven't
 BM> been able to find out what musical selections will be included (have
 BM> you?), so I have decided to accept nominations from 
 BM> my fellow EchoEars.
 BM> Please nominate your selections for pieces of music to be included,
 BM> along with any ideas you have about appropriate 
 BM> animation for each one.
 BM> I would appreciate it if you nominated only one piece per post to make
 BM> it easier to tally the results. If I get enough nominations to make it
 BM> worthwhile, I'll publish a list of the top nominees and we can vote on
 BM> our favorites. It may be too far along for Disney to take our advice,
 BM> but there's always _Fantasia III_!
   At the September 1995 Dianeyana Convention we were given a preview of some 
of "Fantasia Continued".  The following four segments will remain:  
Nutcracker, Sorcerer, Dance of the Hours, and Night on Bald Mountain.
   They are adding the Beethoven Symphony #5 (as the abstract), Respighi's 
Pines of Rome (featuring cavorting [and flying] humpback whales), 
Shostakovich's Piano Concerto #2 (based on Hans Christian Anderson's 
Steadfast Tin Soldier [they found some original Walt Disney storyboards for 
this]), Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganni (nothing special shown 
or said), Saint Sean's Carnival of the Animals (A flock of flamingoes finds a 
yo-yo [the audiance was having hysterics; the yo-yo seems to win]), and one 
of Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance Marches (they said it will **NOT** involve 
the Classic Characters).
   James Levine will be doing the conducting and Peter Schickele will be 
doing the narration.
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