It can be easy to think that Bach and others music is old and out of style but we have to understand that these great composers were making some big innovations for the time when they lived.

Do you get up in the morning, pour a cup of coffee and break out in song? Bach wrote a lot of cantatas, one of them about coffee.

Johann Sebastian Bach lived from 1685 through 1750 in Germany and is one of the most influential composers of all time. There are a lot of reasons why he is so important. To name a few, he wrote a lot of really good music (over 1080 pieces of music!) and he perfected…

Lions and tiger and bear and… pianist? Carnival of the Animals is easy to enjoy for a lot of reasons, it’s light, it describes very specific things like lions, elephants, kangaroos, etc. Ultimately, it describes a world that we can understand and relate to. If you’ve ever been to a zoo you know the fascination with the exotic animals and that is what Saint-Saens was going for.