OllieSuave-007 Mickey Mouse conducts a symphony performing the William Tell Overture at the park, all the while Donald Duck playfully interferes with the conducting and while a ferocious tornado crashes the concert. This is musical fun from start to finish, from the frolicking of the birds during the peaceful sounds of the overture to the hilariously chaotic mêlée of the tornado during the overture's storm sequence.While Mickey Mouse tries to keep everything in order, Donald Duck is definitely the highlight of the cartoon short, with him hilariously trying to annoy Mickey with this flute playing, and him trying to outrun the tornado - sending lots of laughs to the audience.This cartoon short is where I first heard the William Tell Overture. It's a classic Disney cartoon that is among my favorites and brings back great childhood memories! Grade A

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) "The Band Concert" is a Disney cartoon which runs for 9 minutes (unusually long, mostly they are 7 minutes) from 80 years ago. Mickey conducts an orchestra, but he and the musicians have to face several obstacles on their way to a great performance. First, ice cream vendor Donald goes on everybody nerves, then a disruptive bee enters the picture and finally, in accordance with the piece they are playing, a massive storm erupts. I cannot say that I was too impressed by the comedy here. There were a couple mildly funny scenes, but the heart and soul of this film is definitely the music. The director here is Wilfred Jackson who worked on many Disney classics in the decades after this short movie here. Another interesting aspect is that this was done during the early days of Donald and Mickey in color. Mickey still has completely black eyes and Donald has an unproportionally big bead compared to his head. This was going to change in the years after that. All in all, an okay little movie, not bad, but not among Disney's best either.

rbverhoef This short is about Mickey Mouse leading a band. The band plays the famous William Tell Overture when Donald is selling ice cream, hears the band and grabs a flute to play along. Mickey is not very pleased with this.The first Mickey Mouse short in color is nice but I was not as pleased as I normally am with a short like this. Still very nice and perfectly done.

baz-15 All budding animators should see this one. It is one of the all time great cartoons. The scene when the twister lifts the band up is transcendent. It still awes after all these years. The cartoon starts off in a light way, with donald duck interfering with the band,playing turkey in the straw against their william tell overture. The action is guided by the music, and vice versa-when mickey tries to swat a bee by waving his arms, the band play his instructions,when he gets ice cream down his pants and tries to shake it off, they play some belly dance music. There's great attention to detail in the cartoon, the music script follows the band as they fly about in the storm, when mickey is flying about and passes through a window frame the blind shuts after him. And the music is great and complements the animation perfectly. They shoulda sent this cartoon into space with the other stuff on voyager.