Cartoon Music

Fishko Files | May 18, 2010

Music and cartoons have a long and happy history together. But as WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, sometimes what you hear in animation is the last music you’d ever expect! What does the Moonlight Sonata have to do with Elmer Fudd? Here is the next Fishko Files... Tunes for 'Toons is by Daniel Goldmark, published by University of California Press. And for more information on the "Cartoon Musical" Festival at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater, visit www.filmlinc.com.

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