Saturday Morning Cartoons: Schroeder Plays the 'Pathetique' Sonata
Saturday, November 26, 2011
For this final weekend in Beethoven Awareness Month, we return to the Peanuts gang for our Saturday Morning Cartoon.
In the 1969 animated film A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Schroeder (AKA pianist Ingolf Dahl) trades in his toy piano for something much more grand as he plays the second movement from Beethoven’s Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13, “Pathetique.”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBbqJYEg9qc
Hi! Love your Saturday Morning Cartoon segment. Now you MUST watch and include the above cartoon. It's an old Max Fleischer POPEYE cartoon from the 30's called "The Spinach Overture." This is where I was first introduced to the "Poet & Peasant Overture" sitting in front of my TV on Saturday mornings, over my father's tavern in Buffalo. As I watch it now I'm amazed at the prowess of those Fleischer studio musicians. So musical and so funny at the same time. I'm sure some of them ended up with Spike Jones!
Enjoy!
Tom
This needs to be updated. The cartoon looks ancient and outdated. Music lives forever!
The great voice for Saturday, Nov. 26 was Truman Capote.
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