Paul Dukas

And also on the 24th, but in the afternoon at 3:00, the Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra present a French program at the Hoffman Auditorium of the University of St. Joseph's.

Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice, so if you dash from New London to Farmington, you could get drenched twice in the same day.

This is followed by Gounod's beautiful Faust ballet suite.

Watch out, those trumpet parts are in D.

He went on to perform around the world, but was particularly well-known in Germany, becoming a member of the Hamburgische Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, and Deutsche Oper Berlin in the 1980s, also performing a number of Wagner roles at Bayreuth over the course of his career.

And on this day, October 1st, birthdays include Italian composer Alessandro Stradella, born this day in 1644; the profoundly underrated [laughs] French composer Paul Dukas, born in Paris in 1865; and even more profoundly underrated and Hall of Famer on the OBS, the German character tenor Gerhard Stolze, born this day, October 1st, in 1926 in Dessau.

First performances on this day include Francesco Cavalli's Artemisia, which premiered in 1657 in Venice; Henri Desmarest's Circé, which premiered in 1694 in Paris; a few operas by Antonio Maria Bononcini, not Giovanni Bononcini, beginning with his La conquista de Spagna di Scipione Africano, premiering in Vienna in 1707 on this day.

Another one, La presa di Tebe, in 1708.

That's on tomorrow's Ozarks at Large.

[upbeat music] What did French composer Paul Dukas have in common with that famous cartoon mouse? You're on the Soundbeat.

In 1940, Disney released Fantasia, a film of eight animated segments set to some of the greatest classical works of all time.

You're listening to one of them, Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, performed here by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

It's an example of a tone poem, an orchestral piece based on a work of literature.

This one's based on Johann Goethe's Der Zauberlehrling, and follows the same storyline.

Remember Fantasia, the Disney film with just the classical music? And obviously the real famous one was the end there.

Paul Dukas was the composer, sorcerer's apprentice at the end with Mickey Mouse.

Mickey Mouse not wanting to do his work and looking for a quick way around things.

What did he do? What did he do? Oh, yep, he fell asleep while he had the...