At its first performance, Rhapsody in Blue resulted in boos...
I have heard that.
We need a music maven to give the straight scoop.
I used to work with a real music maven from France.
A longhair kind of guy, I once almost accidentally killed him!
We were enjoying lunch and something about bananas came up.
So I said BEETHOVEN’S FAVORITE FRUIT!
He looked at me like I had three eyes?
Then I noted that he even wrote a song about bananas.
Now he is giving me the look, but being from France, to polite to call me any names.
He shakes his head and says NO!, I do not think so!
That is when I socked it to him.
BA-NA-NA-NA!!!
He laughed so hard he was choking, I thought he might pass out?
I can see the accident report, choked on a dumb joke.
Not my fault if that old joke never made it to France?
And as a memory aid to the score of Mozart’s Symphony 40 in G Minor, think...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Mozart...
And to Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyrie,
Giddy up horsie, giddy up horsie....