Nope, the cat. Poor ghost kitty wandering the ruins looking for a warm lap. I get teary eyed just thinking about it…
Since my “conversion” I keep my Marianist tendencies to myself but after mentioning Beth Nielsen Chapman’s ‘Hymns’ CD (It includes “Ave Maria” so there IS a connection in my anecdote. And I burst into tears when I heard it, thank you very much.) to a friend who is on the music committee she wondered if there might be some songs on it that we might use. But since they are mostly in Latin and most are about Mary I didn’t think so. sigh No Mary, no gambling, and and only tasteful amounts of liquor–I gave up so much becoming a Lutheran. 
As for Fantasia, and before anybody thinks my sensitive moments last for longer than a moment, I like the nudity. Topless centaurs and large-breasted demons; who could ask for more?
Really, though, I VASTLY prefer Stokowski’s edited version of Pastoral. Much tauter. Beethoven seems to have had a 40 minute program to fill but only 20 minutes of ideas.
Dude, not criticizing your Faith-choices and all, but there are Lutherans and then there are Lutherans.
Me, I’m one of the “liberal” Lutherans. Female Pastors, gambling, drinking.
Not that we do the gambling and drinking in Church, they’re just not inveighed against, frowned upon or otherwise discouraged.
We have a female pastor but the drinking and gambling, while not actively forbidden or even frowned upon, don’t happen, even off campus, because everybody is a sickeningly well-adjusted Scandanavian. I hear most of the dirt and there really isn’t any. I swear, I’m as close to a closet drunk as this parish has and I have to remind myself to pick up a quart of beer on my way home from work on Friday. Now, back in the Mother Church it was hard to imagine a Casino Night without plenty of booze and the KofC escorting the weepier drunks out to the parking lot and pouring them into their cars. It was a different world, bro. I’m tempted to drop by the AA meetings in the basement just to get back to the people I’m used to.
But back to the movie.
The piece is “Valse Triste” by Sibelius.
I also think Fantasia 2000 is better than the original…and it is a DVD that I play whenever I want to wow someone with visuals and surround sound.
(I do wish that they had not included those lame intros by celebrities between each of the songs.)
If you can remember Fantasia, then you weren’t really at Fantasia.
The new one has lots of great things. But the old one made a huge impression on me when I was a kid, and it’s still my favorite by far.
Among my favorite segments in the old one: [ul][li]the ice skating sprites at the end of the Nutcracker Suite.[]the end of Toccata and Fugue, where Stokowski’s gestures appear to call up pieces of the animation.[/li][]Night on Bald Mountain.[/ul]But my overall favorite segment is the end of the Pastoral Symphony, after the storm, especially when the gods become visible - Iris creating the rainbow, Helios driving the sun chariot, Night covering the sky, and the crescent Moon as Artemis’ bow shooting the arrow that sows the stars.
My three favorite numbers, overall, are all from Fantasia 2000:
The Firebird, Rhapsody in Blue, and the Flamingos.
I don’t have a particularly favorite bit of the first one, although it’s hard to argue with The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
(My least favorite by FAR, by the way, is the Beethoven’s 5th that opens F2)
The one they are talking about is not from Fantasia or Fantasia 2000 but a different film.