A Bald Guy from Venice...

Every Wednesday, Abby has music / recorder class in the school.  It is taught by a volunteering parent of one of her classmate.  Abby has developed interests in music and instruments from it and I feel graceful for that.  It's kind of ironic that even though California is one of the higher income states in America, its education funding per child is one of the lowest country-wide.  Luckily through series of fundraising and volunteering, the kids can still have good exposure to different school activities.

Yesterday, during dinner, Abby told me that they learned a piece music about the swans.  I asked her if that's Swan Lake, she said she was not sure.  So I hummed some of the melody and she said, "yeah yeah, it was written by someone with beard."  I told her that that his name is Tchaikovsky, and she has heard of his other works before.  Abby's eyes were wide open and said, "no way!"  I told her it was the Nutcrackers and she was really excited.

Then, out of nowhere, Abby told me that they also listened music written by a bald guy born in Venice but she couldn't remember anything else.  I told her that she would need to give me more hints.  She thought about it and told me that the only things she could remember are something to do with birds, flowers, thunders, etc.  I asked her whether it was the Four Seasons by Vivaldi.  Then I hummed the melody of Spring to her.  She said, "yeah, yeah, that's the guy!"

A bald guy from Venice...  Hahaha...  I am sorry, Vivaldi.