Black horsie movie!
The other day the Boo requested to watch the “black horsie movie”. I had no clue what he was talking about. We don’t have a black horsie movie, to my knowledge. I ran through the list of movies we had, two have horses, but they weren’t the right ones. Hmm! He was being very specific — there was a black horse at the top of a hill and there were little baby horses. And he did this cute galloping motion with his hands to show how they moved.
After a few days, we figured out he was talking about Fantasia of all things! The Pastorial Symphony by Beethoven is animated with cherubs, centaurs, various gods and goddesses, unicorns, and a black pegasus with babies, of all things! So that’s what he was talking about! What an incredibly memory the boy is developing!
So we’ve been watching Fantasia. I have to admit this tickles me to no end. I’ve tried putting on classical music but he generally is having none of it. In fact if I even put on normal music and sing along to it, he tells me to stop singing and turn off the music! But Fantasia, he seems to like. I think the music is probably incidental, it’s the animation he’s interested in. But that doesn’t matter — he likes it and hey, it’s good music 
The other pieces of Fantasia he likes are the Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, and the Sorcerer’s Apprentive by Paul Dukas. I’m working on the Nutcracker and the Dance of the Hours, but so far he’s not interested in those, as if anyone could resist a dancing hippo!
Nevertheless, I’m pleased. Now if we could only find a copy of Fantasia II! I think he’d like the flying whales.