The Barnyard Concert
About The Barnyard Concert
Mickey Mouse conducts a barnyard band through the familiar stretches of the Poet and Peasant Overture. Piglets become a keyboard when he pulls their tails. Three birds count as one bass. The animals play, miss cues, and get back onto the tune.
Cast & crew
More about The Barnyard Concert
Walt Disney directed and produced the seventeenth Mickey Mouse short. Carl W. Stalling arranged the music. Columbia Pictures released it on 5 April 1930. It runs six minutes and is in black and white.
Themes
Background
Columbia was releasing the Mickey shorts in 1930, after the character had already moved from silent cartoons to sound.
Making
Stalling timed the gags to an existing overture, so the animals' mistakes are written into the rests and the loud passages.
Music
Carl W. Stalling arranged Franz von Suppé's Poet and Peasant Overture for the barnyard band.
Preservation
A print survives. The film entered the public domain in the United States on 1 January 2026.
Notes
- Walt Disney is the credited voice of Mickey.
- Because it was published in 1930, the cartoon entered the public domain in the United States on 1 January 2026.
- The score is built on Franz von Suppé's Poet and Peasant Overture, not on an original song.
Scenes
- Mickey pulls the piglets' tails and they sound the notes of the overture.
Influenced by
- Poet and Peasant Overture (Franz von Suppé)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons
