The Cat Concerto

The Cat Concerto is a Tom and Jerry cartoon, produced in 1946 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, directed by Fred Quimby. The music was arranged for the cartoon by Scott Bradley. It won the 1946 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.

The plot centres on a formal concerto, where Tom is giving a piano recital of Hungarian Rhapsody number 2 by Franz Liszt. Jerry, who has been asleep inside the piano, is entranced by the music and sits on top of the grand piano to listen. Tom cannot abide this, and flicks Jerry off the piano. This begins their cat-and-mouse antics, which continue throughout the cartoon.

External references

• The Cat Concerto, a section of Nicola Watts' "Cartoons and Music" 1997 media studies project at Glasgow University.
• IMDB entry