Sibelius' Valse Triste

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Sibelius' Valse Triste (collectively called "Feline Fantasies"), by far the saddest of all the animation, is about a cat in the ruins of a large house, after either a bombing or a fire. (In the English version, the conductor leads into the animation with "Remember the war?") The cat remembers its life when the house was occupied by a family and for a few seconds the memory becomes real, only to burst like a bubble, returning the cat to a harsh reality. The poor cat wanders about in an extremely lonely and dark environment, only to suddenly get a glint in its eye as the music cues up enthusiastically, seeing the entire house and all its furnishings and people reappear and do their everyday tasks again. The stark contrast in the piece between the silent moping and the bright, happy, swooping, phrases is animated through the gray coloring followed by the pictured, almost surreal amount of color when the cat hallucinates. Unfortunately, all of the hallucinations crash back down into even deeper misery, the cat finding itself in a post-apocalyptic scene again. The third time the cat finds itself in reality, with the final chords of the waltz, the cat itself fades away, and a wrecking ball clears the remaining ruins of the house, leaving not even a memory.

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Uploaded: November 22nd, 2007 @ 1:13 am
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