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unusual facts about fantasia


Fantasia-class cruise ship

MSC Fantasia and MSC Splendida have a 16,000-ft2(1,500-m2) spa facility, four swimming pools, a Tex-Mex restaurant, a 1,700-seater showlounge, a Mini golf course, a Tennis/Basketball court.


Adnan Abu Hassan

He is also known for his guidance in the Akademi Fantasia reality singing contest as the Vocal Teacher for the first three Akademi Fantasia series.

Anna Fantastic

She also wrote the song "Fantasia Erotica", which resurfaced on Carmen Electra's debut album in 1992.

Aurelius Battaglia

He contributed most notably to Dumbo, Fantasia, and Pinocchio and is credited as one of the writers of the latter.

Bruno Bozzetto

However, his best-known work is probably the 1976 feature film Allegro Non Troppo, a collection of short pieces set to classical music in the manner of Disney's Fantasia, but more humorous in nature, economical in execution and with more sophisticated narrative themes.

Cainon Lamb

After retiring from football in late 2005, Lamb went on to work with some of the industry's biggest names including Monica, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia, Missy Elliott, Keyshia Cole, Jazmine Sullivan, Trina and Jagged Edge.

Callender's Cableworks Band

In the late 1920s they recorded A Sailor's Life (Descriptive Fantasia), parts 1 and 2, conducted by Tom Morgan, on two Broadcast Twelve disks.

Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied

Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied was among Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Nutcracker Suite, Night on Bald Mountain, Ave Maria, Dance of the Hours, Clair de Lune, The Rite of Spring, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice as the original planned line-up for Walt Disney Pictures' Fantasia.

Ephemeral Fantasia

The Dreamcast version of Ephemeral Fantasia was to feature cameos by Sega characters including Sonic the Hedgehog, Ulala, Ryo Hazuki, and, oddly enough, notable Sega developers Yu Suzuki and Yuji Naka.

Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli

In January 1975 the Corelli Fantasia reached an audience of some 14 million television viewers when it was featured prominently in the film Akenfield, directed by Peter Hall.

Fantasia Lindum

The album title is taken from the musical sequence which makes up the first side of the album: a fantasia is a free musical composition with its roots in the art of improvisation; Lindum is the latin name for the city of Lincoln.

The "Fantasia Lindum" sequence, which makes up the first side of the album, is the band's musical tribute to the city of Lincoln, the Lincolnshire countryside and the mediaeval Lincoln Cathedral.

Fantasia on British Sea Songs

In 2005, the bugle calls were restored to the fantasia after a long absence, although Ye Spanish Ladies was removed, replaced by the Welsh, Scottish and Irish songs, arranged by Bob Chilcott: Ar Hyd y Nos, The Skye Boat Song and Danny Boy.

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (16 June 1762, in Palmanova – August 28, 1844) was an Italian painter, known mainly for his history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes, including veduta di fantasia or capricci.

Inganno

Examples include numerous works by Girolamo Frescobaldi (for instance, Fantasia seconda of 1608) and ricercares attributed to Jacques Brunel (the first recorded systematic use of inganno); it has been suggested by scholar Roland Jackson that the technique played an important part in the development of the late Italian madrigal, including the famous works of Carlo Gesualdo.

Jaromír Weinberger

It was once considered by the artists of the Walt Disney studio to be made into a Fantasia segment for Fantasia 2000, but lost out to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, in the form of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier".

Just Charlie

Singer Fantasia is the only featured guest on the album, who appears on a remake of the famous Roger Troutman classic, "I Want to Be Your Man".

Laura Young

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Stefan Soewandi - Guitarworks II (double CD)
CD 1: Zoran Dukic: Träumerei über ein javanisches Volkslied (Reverie on a Javanese Folk-Songs)
CD 1: Siegbert Remberger: Fantasia on a Theme by Tárrega
CD 1: Carlo Marchione: Kamajaya
CD 2: Laura Young: Dewa - Seven Short Etudes
CD 2: Enno Voorhorst: Irrlicht - Sonate
CD 2: The Guitar4mation: Ismaya - Sonatina II for Guitar Quartet
CD 2: Martin Schwarz: Six Studies of a Dream

Milt Neil

He worked on Dumbo, Fantasia, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Der Fuehrer's Face.

Nat Sakdatorn

In 2007, Sakdatorn auditioned for the fourth season of True Academy Fantasia, singing Clash's ละครรักแท้, Savage Garden's I Want You, the winner of first season Phacharapon Junteang's Sound EFX and Westlife's cover version of Debby Boone's You Light Up My Life.

Nothosaurus

In the Rite of Spring segment of Disney's Fantasia, Nothosaurus is briefly depicted; feeding its young and as the anachronistic prey of Dimetrodon.

Only One U

It was written by Bryan Michael Cox, Thabiso "Tab" Nkhereanye, and The Clutch members Ezekiel Lewis, Balewa Muhammad, and Candice Nelson for her second studio album, Fantasia (2006), with production handled by the former.

Perseus and Andromeda

Perseus and Andromeda is a text adventure game released in 1983 by Digital Fantasia on the Mysterious Adventures label.

Phoenix 2772

The influences can be seen with the prison mining set of Unisen minors (Fleischer Studios), Pincho and other creatures dancing with a mop (Disney's Fantasia) and the reference to Pinocchio when Olga is given new life.

Piano Sonatas Nos. 13 – 14, Opus 27

Ludwig van Beethoven's opus number 27 is a set of two piano sonatas both entitled Sonata quasi una Fantasia for their combination of freedom of form with sonata structure.

Share A Dream Come True Parade

This float features Mickey Mouse inside a snow globe, with 11 sculpted figures of Mickey from films throughout the years including Steamboat Willie, Brave Little Tailor, Plane Crazy, Mickey and the Beanstalk, Mickey's Christmas Carol and Sorcerer Mickey from Fantasia.

The Great Land of Small

Arguing that the beginning of the film was "tediously padded", they thought that the subplot based around Mimmick and Flannigan was unnecessary, and that the actual Great Land of Small – while envisioned as a place like the Land of Oz or The Neverending Storys Fantasia – was "a distinct disappointment" due to its "embarrassingly low-budget production design, and cheap editing tricks".

The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter

Upon landing in Fantasia, he reunites with Atreyu (Kenny Morrison) and meets a new character, an anthropomorphic talking bird named Nimbly (Martin Umbach).

Tomás de Santa María

Little is known about his life except that he joined the Dominican order of friars in 1536, he was employed as an organist in various locales in mid-century, and he published his major work, Arte de tañer fantasía, in Valladolid in 1565.

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

Herbert Blendinger also wrote an organ fantasia on the hymn, Op. 49.

Walter McConnell

Holly Henessian describes her reaction to one of these works, Theory of Everything (Blue version), “The Virgin Mary and E.T. were shoved together with other luminous characters from TV, creating a fantasia of delight.”


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