Mickey is trying to lead a concert of The William Tell Overture, but he's continually disrupted by ice cream vendor Donald, who uses a seemingly endless supply of flutes to play Turkey in the Straw instead. After Donald gives up, a bee comes along and causes his own havoc. The band then reaches the Storm sequence, and the weather also starts to pick up; a tornado comes along, but they keep playing.
The short runs on a simple idea: a serious piece of orchestral music gets taken apart step by step by small disruptions, with the score setting the beat. The gags are timed tightly to the Rossini music, and the pace keeps rising until the chaos feels almost physical. It is early Disney slapstick in color that shows how closely picture and sound can be woven together.
Good for you if you like slapstick cartoons with precise timing and classical music and only have a few minutes to spare.
Written with AI, based on TMDb data.