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Dance of the Hours is a ballet from the opera La Gioconda
La Gioconda (opera)

La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Angelo, tyran de Padoue, a play in prose by Victor Hugo, dating from 1835....
 composed by Amilcare Ponchielli
Amilcare Ponchielli

Amilcare Ponchielli was an Italian composer, largely of operas....
 (1834–1886).

The ballet was used in the Walt Disney
Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
 animated film Fantasia
Fantasia (film)

Fantasia is a 1940 in film List of animated feature-length films produced by Walt Disney, and is the third film in the List of Disney theatrical animated features#official canon....
, albeit with ballet
Ballet

Ballet is a formalized type of performative dance, the origins of which date lay in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France courts, and which was further developed in England, Italy, and Russia as a concert dance form....
-dancing hippos
Hippopotamus

The hippopotamus or hippo is a large, mostly herbivore African mammal, one of only two Extant taxon species in the scientific classification Hippopotamidae ....
 (complete with tutu
Tutu

Tutu may refer to:* Ballet tutu, a type of costume for ballet performances* Tutu , poisonous New Zealand plants of the genus Coriaria* Tutu , a 1986 album by Miles Davis...
s), ostrich
Ostrich

The ostrich Struthio camelus is a large flightless bird native to Africa . It is the only living species of its family , Struthionidae, and its genus, Struthio....
es, alligator
Alligator

An Alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. The name alligator is an anglicization form of the Spanish language el lagarto , the name by which early Spain explorers and settlers in Florida called the alligator....
s and elephant
Elephant

Elephants are large land mammals of the order Proboscidea and the family Elephantidae. There are three living species: the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant and the Asian Elephant ....
s. Some of the orchestration was revised by conductor Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski

Leopold Stokowski was a famous orchestral conducting, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted....
.

The piece may best be recognized from one segment of it that formed the basis for the hit song "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh
Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh

"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh " is the Grammy-winning novelty song based on Kvetch letters Allan Sherman received from his son attending Camp Champlain, New York....
" and its sequel "Return to Camp Granada" by Allan Sherman
Allan Sherman

Allan Sherman was a Jewish United States musician, parody, satire and television producer....
.






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Dance of the Hours is a ballet from the opera La Gioconda
La Gioconda (opera)

La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Angelo, tyran de Padoue, a play in prose by Victor Hugo, dating from 1835....
 composed by Amilcare Ponchielli
Amilcare Ponchielli

Amilcare Ponchielli was an Italian composer, largely of operas....
 (1834–1886).

The ballet was used in the Walt Disney
Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
 animated film Fantasia
Fantasia (film)

Fantasia is a 1940 in film List of animated feature-length films produced by Walt Disney, and is the third film in the List of Disney theatrical animated features#official canon....
, albeit with ballet
Ballet

Ballet is a formalized type of performative dance, the origins of which date lay in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France courts, and which was further developed in England, Italy, and Russia as a concert dance form....
-dancing hippos
Hippopotamus

The hippopotamus or hippo is a large, mostly herbivore African mammal, one of only two Extant taxon species in the scientific classification Hippopotamidae ....
 (complete with tutu
Tutu

Tutu may refer to:* Ballet tutu, a type of costume for ballet performances* Tutu , poisonous New Zealand plants of the genus Coriaria* Tutu , a 1986 album by Miles Davis...
s), ostrich
Ostrich

The ostrich Struthio camelus is a large flightless bird native to Africa . It is the only living species of its family , Struthionidae, and its genus, Struthio....
es, alligator
Alligator

An Alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. The name alligator is an anglicization form of the Spanish language el lagarto , the name by which early Spain explorers and settlers in Florida called the alligator....
s and elephant
Elephant

Elephants are large land mammals of the order Proboscidea and the family Elephantidae. There are three living species: the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant and the Asian Elephant ....
s. Some of the orchestration was revised by conductor Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski

Leopold Stokowski was a famous orchestral conducting, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted....
.

The piece may best be recognized from one segment of it that formed the basis for the hit song "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh
Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh

"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh " is the Grammy-winning novelty song based on Kvetch letters Allan Sherman received from his son attending Camp Champlain, New York....
" and its sequel "Return to Camp Granada" by Allan Sherman
Allan Sherman

Allan Sherman was a Jewish United States musician, parody, satire and television producer....
. That same segment has also been used in television advertisements (Velveeta
Velveeta

Velveeta is the brand name of a processed cheese first made in 1918 by Swiss immigrant Emil Frey of the Monroe Cheese Company in Monroe, New York....
, et al.) as recently as 2005. It is also the source of the tune for the song "Like I Do", a hit for Maureen Evans
Maureen Evans

Maureen Evans is a Welsh people pop music singer who achieved fame briefly in the 1960s....
 in 1962.

The rendition by Spike Jones and His City Slickers
Spike Jones

Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones was a popular musician and bandleader specializing in performing satirical arrangements of popular songs. Ballads and classical works receiving the Jones treatment would be punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells and ridiculous vocals....
 included several segments of the melody, although presented out of order to suit the presentation of the record, a parody of the Indianapolis 500
Indianapolis 500

The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, often shortened to Indianapolis 500 or Indy 500 or commonly known simply as The 500, is an USA automobile auto racing, held annually over the Memorial Day weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana....
 that was effectively a sequel to their William Tell Overture. The portion recognizable as the basis for "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" is executed by banging pipes and honking bicycle horns, with each individual "clang" or "honk" producing the proper pitch of the note.

On the reverse side of the Jones recording released to radio stations was a "Musical Round Table" discussion, during which Jones and some of his performers described the recording of the song, including commentary on instrumentation. Jones famously introduced the discussion with his trademark "Thank you, music lovers", then proceeded to dissect the recording, inserting excerpts where needed.

Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon
Christopher Wheeldon

Christopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet.Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8....
 created a new rendition of Dance of the Hours for his ballet company, Morphoses . The work was featured in the company's New York debut, on October 17, 2007.

The music also appeared in an episode of Garfield and Friends entitled "The Garfield Opera", in which Garfield and the others sing to the music's tune.

Yet again, Wakko from Animaniacs
Animaniacs

Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs, usually referred to as Animaniacs, is an American list of animated television series, distributed by Warner Bros....
 belches Dance of the Hours.

It is heard in the beginning of an episode of Camp Lazlo
Camp Lazlo

Camp Lazlo is a American animated television series created by Joe Murray, produced by Cartoon Network Studios. It currently airs on Cartoon Network....
.

The "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" section can be heard in the episode of The Simpsons
The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
 entitled "The Burns and the Bees
The Burns and the Bees

"The Burns and the Bees" is the eighth episode of the The Simpsons of The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States on December 7, 2008....
" as Mr. Burns attends Billionaires Camp.

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