Dance of the Hours
by Amilcare Ponchielli

Fantasia fun fact: The costumes that the animals wear in Dance of the Hours represent the time of day each of them represents. The ostriches wear colors to suggest the delicate light of dawn, the hippopotamuses are dressed to represent the brilliant light of noonday, the elephants wear colors to suggest the delicate tones of early evening, and the alligators are in darker colors to suggest the dark hours of the night.

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