

My first ever cinema trip was to watch a reissue of Disney's Fantasia, but my mum had to carry me out midway, because my terrified toddler screams were drowning out the classical score. Sometimes, the force of Disney's sound and vision is unexpectedly intense. It is simultaneously in-the-moment and timeless.

Around a century ago, Walt Disney declared his musical ethos to his team: "We should set a new pattern, a new way to use music – weave it into the story so that somebody doesn't just burst into song." Disney music feels woven into our life stories, too its vast repertoire seeps into our consciousness from infancy it casts a spell through our adulthood. Music has always been the true key to the Magic Kingdom.
