The Music Behind the Magic in Hemet

As readers of this blog have noticed, I am especially interested in the timing of the Disney films, from Steamboat Willie onwards. Southern California readers can now "Discover the magic of Disney music at the Western Center Museum February 6th – May 10th, 2009. Disney: The Music Behind the Magic (organized by the Experience Music Project, Seattle) is the first museum exhibition to tell the story of how Disney has used music to engage audiences, drive its timeless narratives, and succeed in cartoons, television, theme parks, live-action films, on Broadway and the Billboard charts."


You will find the very first score for Steamboat Willie there, as well as Frank Churchill's score for the Three Little Pigs, Ub Iwerks' original 1929 drawn script for The Karnival Kid, and much, much more (ok, all the way up to Miley Cyrus and High School Musical 3...)
By the way, if you like mammoths, well, they have those, too!
It's certainly worth the hour-and-a-half drive from Burbank, folks. There will be special events, as well - more on those later!

By the way, Steamboat Willie clearly is 2-16 all the way through, though you could call it 4-8 as well. The easiest, most dividable beat possible. And if you still don't know what that means, you need to read up on your beats and barsheets!