![]() ![]() To see this handsomely dressed orchestra cut loose with what is essentially front porch music on a grand scale is a joyous sight. In what I suspect will be one of my favorite scenes of the year, the orchestra breaks into a nicely choreographed round of hand-clapping and foot-stomping to convey happy pink days. In each of the segments, the film routinely cuts away to watch the orchestra-literally showing young viewers how various pieces of music are used to create a wide range of moods. Seuss fans of all ages will delight in watching a young boy and his dog embark on colorful journeys of the imagination: riding make-believe horses on energetic red days, languidly swimming under the sea on quiet green days, feeling "slow and low down" on brown days, and so on. Geisel's witty rhymes pairing a child's emotions with colorful days, wonderful narration by Holly Hunter, top-notch 3-D computer animation, and, of course, a dynamite musical score. ![]() Seuss's My Many Colored Days, based on the beloved author's 1973 text (released as a posthumous picture book in 1996), features Theodor S. ![]() In the field of children's music videos, the Minnesota Orchestra's Notes Alive! series ( On the Day You Were Born and The Nutcracker: The Untold Story ) exist in a multi-award winning class of their own. ![]()
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