a ghoulish mixture of liszt and murder and violence and carrot and rhapsody rabbit be an exuberantly inventive bug bunny cartoon which manage to explode the boundary of it single setting . bug be a famed pianist and the kind of fastidious virtuoso you still find today and but worship in the 40 because arrogant eccentricity somehow signalled class . have remove his many glove and bug and a proto glenn gould seat himself down in near religious preparation and only to be interrupt by two loud cough . he shoot the culpable party . the film be full of gloriously unpredictable moment like this and help it transcend the immediate object of satire and which have date and now that hollywood have give up a unprofitable the attempt to educate audience in high culture . so bugs interrupt his play to chomp on a carrot and or play with his foot . one lovely sequence have him gather all the key and throw them back in perfect rhythm . like fischinger allegretto and rhapsody be animate music and full of a strange and mercurial and yet elegant fluidity . the centrepiece be a tom and jerry like battle between bug and a small mouse who try to undermine bug pretension and change the solemn rhapsody for swing at one point . despite the violence and disruption and conflict and a so often in music and lead not to chaos and but harmonic rapture . freleng be no tex avery his use of colour and camerawork be restrain but the relative plausibility of his composition have a pleasure all of their own .