[donna]

My classical music education was earned watching Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, and Popeye cartoons long ago! Plus, in 4th-grade school music class, we learned 10-classical songs and then had a special dress-up night to see a live orchestra and we took a test and got a certificate for properly naming song/artist (correct spelling, too) .

I found “A Little Night Music” by Mozart wandering around YouTube listening to “oldies” which I seem to do a lot now days.

Steven Sondheim! You are so sophisticated! My favorites are "The Music Man" and "Bye-Bye Birdie". Man, am I old.

[Soaring Feather]

300!

Yay me.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Not so bad as growing up with the likes of "Oklahoma" and "South Pacific" for being old.

Your formal introduction to the classics sounds pretty good -at least a teacher or two put some thought and planning into the program - compared to the by-chance intros a lot of us got. Fortunately with programs like "The Firestone Hour" and such, olde tyme radio used to offer a lot of musical programming with some real substance, unlike the hip-hop, heavy metal and some of the rest so available today.

"I'm a Little Teapot" got me rummaging around in the memories for other appropriate songs from long ago, and I remembered one our mother used to like to sing to us. The Itsy Bitsy Spider - the poor woman would probably, as they say, turn over n her grave if she could hear some of the variations on this arrangement.....