If you can hum a few bars from the theme song for “The Flintstones,” “The Jetsons” or one of the more than 250 other cartoons made by Hanna-Barbera since the late 1950s, you have Hoyt Curtin to thank.

Fans of classical music and jazz, who also appreciate classic cartoons, are in for a real treat. The Queen’s Cartoonists, who perform live in front of a screen where cartoons from the past 100 years ...

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Culture mavens don't like to admit it, but most people under the age of 50 learned everything they know about classical music from TV cartoons. The introduction to orchestras goes from Tom and Jerry's ...

The current sound of children’s television animation has expanded notably with composer Ego Plum’s score to the Nickelodeon series Harvey Beaks, in which electronics and guitars fuse with the sound of ...

As I watched The Queen’s Cartoonists slip and slide through decades of cartoon music in a matter of minutes, with the animations projected on a large screen behind them, I followed a captivated crowd ...

Today the American Composers Forum is commemorating the birth of a “quintessential American form of 20th century music: cartoons”. Actually, there is a lot to celebrate today. November 18, 1928 was ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Emily Shwartz. Good cartoons are hard to make. Creators must introduce a whole new world ...

Richard Stone, an Emmy-winning composer of cartoon music for such Warner Bros. series as “Animaniacs” and “Pinky & the Brain,” died of pancreatic cancer Friday at his West Hills home. He was 47. Stone ...

The Queen’s Cartoonists bring the music of cartoons to the Performing Arts Center at Kent State University - Tuscarawas on Saturday, Oct. 8 at 7:30 p.m. Pulling from over 100 years of animation, The ...

Although many people had a great 2023, it compared little to the year Taylor Swift had. She shattered records with her Eras Tour, received Time’s Person of the Year award, and started a new ...

The Simpsons are going to MusicVille! The show has released this week’s opening couch gag a few days ahead of its Sunday airtime, and it’s a charming homage to the 1930s Disney cartoon “Music Land,” ...