Cartoon Brew

When Classical Music And Cartoons Mingled: How Friz Freleng’s ‘Rhapsody In Rivets’ Became “A Working-Class Fantasia”

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 ...
Case Western Reserve University

From Cartoons to Classrooms: How One Song Sparked a Career in Musicology

At just five years old, Daniel Goldmark began piano lessons to learn a song that had stuck with him. Years later, he realized it came from the background of classic Hollywood cartoons. That moment ...
Fairfax Times

Classical music meets classic cartoons

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 ...
Rolling Stone

Revisiting Beatles’ Wonderfully Wacky Cartoon Series, 50 Years Later

Even Beatles completists sometimes have a blind spot when it comes to the band’s eponymous cartoon, which ran on ABC for four years — starting exactly 50 years ago, on September 25th, 1965. If you ...