Children's Corner

Thanks to my mother's good friend Barb, here's a bit of background information about Golliwogg's Cake-Walk, which I recommended back in November.

Did you know that Debussy (Barb's favorite composer) wrote that piece in part to poke fun of Wagner? One of the recurring motifs is a play on the famous chord from Tristan and Isolde. Debussy initally loved Wagner, but eventually grew to detest him. He felt that Wagner's music was dangerous to the complex and subtle sensibility of French music.

Insert your own joke here about the French or about Wagner & Hitler.