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Classical 101

Happy 75th Birthday Bugs Bunny

Warner Brothers
Bugs channeling Leopold Stokowski

Warner Brothers cartoons have introduced generations of youngsters to classical music.  This is a short thank you to Bugs, Elmer, Daffy, and the gang for making music fun and funny!

Chuck Jones has a fabulous website which will keep you scrolling, and scrolling, and scrolling.  (Really...just trust me and try it.)

Here's a nice look at the storied life of that wascally wabbit.

You can even draw your own Bugs...

Here are a few Warner Brothers musical favorites...

A Corny Concerto from 1943 - It's starts out corny and gets crazier, if that's possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m735o_eEwgg

The Rabbit of Seville - You KNEW you loved opera, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXCULR2wO-A

Leopold - Bugs dons his conducting togs to torture a tenor.  (This link takes you to https://vimeo.com/66498484">the full length version.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt1V61SPI_w

Figaro - more tenor terror.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ijVeeeTjs

...and just a bit of What's Opera, Doc?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jDcWAWRRHo

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