When Walt Disney released “Fantasia” in 1940, he wished upon a star. “Here it is, and it’s finished, and I’m hoping,” he said two days before the movie’s debut. “God, I’m hoping. Although it initially ...

Fans of classical music and jazz, who also appreciate classic cartoons, are in for a real treat. The Queen’s Cartoonists, who perform live in front of a screen where cartoons from the past 100 years ...

Cartoon Brew is pleased to present an exclusive excerpt from the new book Anvils, Mallets & Dynamite: The Unauthorized Biography of Looney Tunes by Jaime Weinman. The book can be purchased from the ...

Bugs Bunny appearing in "Rhapsody Rabbit" cartoon from Warner Bros. With Colorado's statewide stay-at-home order extended due to the coronavirus pandemic, and tens of thousands of kids now involved in ...

Bugs Bunny is back, and he brought along some friends. The rascally rabbit has been cutting a swath through concert halls since 1989, when orchestras uncovered a box-office hit by playing along with ...

You can’t argue with the classics. I’m talking about the classic Warner Brothers cartoons featuring Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Porky and the gang. All were featured in the opening night Long Beach Symphony ...

Did you know some of the world’s most famous classical composers wrote music for cartoons? Take, for example, Brahms’ famous “Pigs in a Polka” dances, or Rossini’s monumental “Bugs Bunny Rides Again,” ...

It isn't the day the music died just yet. But it's with mixed emotions that the folks at WCRB-FM (102.5), Boston's only all-classical radio station, ready the eighth annual -- and final -- Classical ...

I know you've been told otherwise, but there is plenty of humor in classical music. Even the heaven-storming Beethoven, who drove his nephew to near suicide, took his sister-in-law to court (twice!) ...

Unless you’re a musician–and sometimes, not even then–you’re probably not very comfortable with reading musical notation. Sure, we might be taught in grade school music class. We might be able to plod ...

Generations of kids got their first taste of classical music through Looney Tunes and other classic cartoons. Reset sits down the co-creator and conductor of “Bugs Bunny at the Symphony” to talk about ...