Looney Tunes

What a busy few weeks!  Blogging falls to the bottom of the "To Do" list when there's so many other things going on. 

Last week, I took Fletcher on a "date night" along with Mrs. Teresa and Tucker to see Bugs Bunny at the Symphony.  The live orchestra played the scores for several of the old Looney Tunes cartoons (and even threw in Scooby Doo and Flintstones cartoons too).  It was fun seeing all of those old 7 minute cartoons on the big screen as the orchestra played.  I'm not sure Fletcher completely understood the significance of the live orchestra.  But he has seen Looney Tunes cartoons before so he thought it was neat. 

The conductor has been doing this "Bugs Bunny On Broadway" with different orchestras all over the world.  He goes to a new city, the orchestra learns the music and then they perform it and he moves on to the next place.  In between cartoons, the conductor did a great job of explaining a little of the history behind the Warner Brothers studio orchestra.  Back in the day, each studio had its own orchestra that played all the scores for all the shows including cartoons and other TV shows.  So there were some very talented musicians in Hollywood.   One of the instruments (can't remember the name) in the orchestra the night we went was one of the actual instruments used in the 1940s orchestra.

I don't know if Fletcher will grow up and enjoy going to the symphony.  But this was a fun way to introduce the concept to him.

Here's a small clip similar to what we saw.