Articles on Animation &Disney 20 May 2008 07:55 am
Bambi’s Music 1
- I first met Ross Care years ago. He had scored the music to one of John Canemaker‘s early short films, The Wizard’s Son. I was impressed, and since I was looking for a composer for the first film of my new company, Byron Blackbear & The Scientific Method, I asked Ross for his help. He did a great job with little time and less money.
It was only a short time later, that I learned that Ross was an animation music historian. Somehow, we worked together in setting up a program for ASIFA East in which the conductor for Bambi, Alexander Steinert, took the stage with Ross to analyze the music for that film. I had a 16mm print of the film, and we watched about half of it. It was one of those memorable ASIFA meetings, that stay with you forever.
A year or two later, Ross had written an extensive article on Bambi’s music for The Quarterly Journal of The Library of Congress, the Spring 1983 edition. I just recently ran into the article on my shelves, and after getting Ross’ permission, I’m posting that article here. It’s 22 pages long, so I’ll have to post it in two parts.
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Article: Copyright © 1983 Ross B. Care
on 22 May 2008 at 4:16 pm 1.kevin said …
What a small world,for at my day job, we sell your wonderful animations, and I have known Ross for years through his association with SCARLET STREET ,writing columns about film music.
How goes your film about E. A. Poe?
Be happy and well.
Kevin
on 13 Nov 2024 at 4:57 pm 2.Ross Care said …
Belated thanks to Michael for preserving this article. I truly consider it a Labor of Love and a tribute to one of the greatest and most beautiful Hollywood film scores of its time. And thanks to the Library of Congress for so lovingly publishing it.