instruments

The frogs appear larger than life, as Tiana’s does utilize a popular theme park cliche of shrinking the audience at one point, but the scene also allows us to better see how all the animals are playing instruments made out of either found objects or forest materials.

Enough with the score, expertly handled by music director and conductor Marc Macalintal and an orchestra that blends Eastern and Western instruments to hypnotic effect.

“When they come to the concerts or the family workshops, they don’t think of me as being an older woman, a Black woman. They just think, ‘Here’s a lady who sings songs we can sing, who plays instruments we can hear.’

Then they killed everybody and burned all the instruments.

The measurements from the spacecraft’s instruments indicated that the planets and moons were inactive, unlike the other moons in the outer solar system.