Music and Anima-tion

Who would have imagined that composers like Beethoven, Glinka, or Schnittke would end up linked to cartoons? Ludwig Van and Mikhail Ivanovich, please forgive me, but your trios and dances will now be played alongside animated images, each frame telling its own story, and every note unlocking a heart.

And yet, if there is any place where such a meeting of worlds should happen, it is here, at the Resonance concert .If all goes according to plan, it won’t just stir our souls but might also shake up our ideas about anime as an art form. We aim to delight not just our music lovers but also those who feel a bit confined in the world of pure music. After all, here both music and animation—mirroring the spirit of anima (soul) within anime—unite to ignite our imagination.

Who but Yuri Norstein, the magician behind the unforgettable “Hedgehog in the Fog,”…