We Viewed a Film, Listened to the Film's Music. What Next?

How can we move forward after identifying our favorite EARWORMS (music that plays over and over in our heads) in films? Let's use the film Fantasia as an example of how we can create intergenerational activities after watching a film with memorable music.

Books

In the previous blog post, I mentioned reading books that relate to the film. We can conduct a From Page To Screen Intergenerational Club, either on-site or through distance delivery. The books could include the following:

• Fantasia Paperback, 1991. (Easy Piano Songbook) that includes arrangements of 13 famous classical pieces from the film.

• The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Little Golden Book),

• Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

• The Rite of Spring - Stravinsky

• Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin (book: Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, 2006; The Music in George's Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue, 2016)

• Piano Concerto No. 2 - Dmitri Shostakovich

• The Carnival of the Animals - Camille Saint-Saens (book: The Story Orchestra: Carnival of the Animals, Press the note to hear Saint-Saens' music [Volume 5] by Jessica Courtney-Tickle, 2020d; Carnival of the Animals by John Lithgow, 2004; The Carnival of the Animals by Jack Prelutsky, 2010

• Pomp and Circumstance - Edward Elgar

• Firebird Suite - Igor Stravinsky

• Night on Bald Mountain - Modest Mussorgsky

Film Clips

Here are free links to film clips of stories from Fantasia:

• https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/periods-genres/film-tv/fantasia-disney-music/

• Walt Disney Films - Fantasia (1940)

• Rite of Springs in Fantasia

• Fantasia 2000 Symphony No. 5

• Fantasia (194) - The Sorcerer's Apprentice, First Part

• Fantasia 2000 - Carnival of the Animals

• Ponchielli Dance of the Hours from the 1940 Disney movie Fantasia

• Fantasia - Russian Flowers

Commonsensemedia.org editors recommend Fantasia 2000 as delightful, but may scare more sensitive kids, age 6+ (I share scenes from Fantasia with pre-schoolers, as well as school-age children).

Sheet Music

Sheet music is available through YouTube and many other sources for a variety of musical instruments used in the film, especially piano.

Dance

Here are free YouTube links to ballets in the Fantasia film:

• Ponchielli Dance of the Hours from the 1940 Disney movie Fantasia

• Ballet. Enjoy it!

• Disney Fantasia Dance of the Hours 3 Hippopotamus

• Fantasia - Dance of The Sugarplum Fairy (Tchaikovsky)

• The Mushroom Dance from "Fantasia" (1940)

• Disney Fantasia-Nutcracker3 - Dance of Mirlitons

Rite of Spring, composed by Igor Stravinsky, and so beautifully portrayed in Disney's Fantasia film, has been featured in many ballet performances. My favorite is "Rhythm is it," featuring children from all over the world dancing to the Berliner Philharmoniker Orchestra, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

Read Alouds

Elders can create their own read alouds (narrators reading story) or we can share the following read-alouds recorded on YouTube:

• Fantasia 2000 (Storyteller Version)

• Walt Disney's Fantasia book

• Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice Mr. Storytime

• Disney's Mickey Mouse the Sorcer's Apprentice Book Read Aloud

Art

• Backdrops (do an Internet search for "Disney Fantasia backdrop" image; in front of the backdrop, program individuals to share personal life stories related to the film}

• Coloring book (do an Internet search for "Disney paint or coloring book")

• Elders/youth draw/paint a collective picture or quilt of a scene from the film

• Elders/youth draw a scene/image from the film or a memory stimulated by a scene/image from the film

• How to draw Mickey Mouse in the 1940s: Follow instructions to draw a scene from Fantasia, such asThe Sorcerer's Apprentice & Mickey & the Beanstalk

Legos

• Elders/youth build a Lego display based on the film

• View Sorcerer Mickey Mouse from Disney's Fantasia New LEGO Display at Disney Springs LEGO Store 2021

• Game of Bricks

• Take a Lego Seiorus Play workshop

Games

• Ceaco - Disney - Fantasia 15-- Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

• Ceaco - Thomas Kinkade - Disney Dreams Collection 300 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Physical Fitness

• View Rite of Spring, then move like a dinosaur.

• Here's a 3 1/2 minute video of an ntergenerational Dinosaur Dance and Dino Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSkVgH-4PKw

• Today in my Gyrokinesis Zoom class, I sat on the floor, legs in front and "clunking" like a dinosaur.