Symphony Hour

Symphony Hour is a color Mickey Mouse animated short. It was released in 1942.

The Story
Mickey is the conductor of an orchestra composed of members of the gang for the Sylvester Macaroni Symphony House radio show. Everything goes perfectly in rehearsal, but things start to go wrong just before showtime when Goofy accidentally drops the instruments (and himself) down the elevator shaft and the elevator crushes all the instruments. Against all odds, Mickey manages to just barely hold the performance together as the gang tries to play their broken instruments despite the ever-increasing lunacy. Donald tries to leave but Mickey manages to make him stay to complete the piece.

As the piece ends, Mr. Macaroni is sure his career has been ruined, but is pleased to find out that the audience actually loved the bizarre performance.

Characters

 * Mickey Mouse
 * Donald Duck
 * Goofy
 * Horace Hosscollar
 * Clarabelle Cow
 * Clara Cluck
 * Pete (as Sylvester Macaroni)

Home video releases
VHS
 * Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Limited Gold Editions - Mickey
 * Walt Disney Mini Classics: Peter and the Wolf 

DVD
 * Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color, Volume Two

Trivia

 * Symphony Hour would be the last animated short in the Mickey Mouse Cartoon series until the end of World War II.
 * Though she can be seen among the others playing in rehearsal, Clara Cluck oddly does not appear in the actual performance.
 * This film would mark the last theatrical appearance of Clara Cluck.
 * Pete's character Sylvester Macaroni caused a bit of controversy with the Italian community, in which they felt that Macaroni was an unfair stereotype on their behalf due to the fact that he had a thick Italian accent and chain-smoked cigars. This was not the first time that a character (especially Pete) had been attacked due to their portrayal of a character.
 * After this animated short, Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow wouldn't appear in another animated short until Mickey's Christmas Carol.
 * The music performed in this short is actually one of Franz von Suppé's Leichte Kavallerie (Light Cavalry).