If jazz music is my home, classical music is the next door neighbor I like but don’t know enough about to have drinks or discuss politics with.

I was sitting at home this evening, listening to the sleep inducing combination of raindrops pelting my windowpanes and a heady mixture of classical piano when Chopin’s Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 began to play. Upon hearing the song, I immediately sat up and said, “That’s ‘Till The End of Time’!” I did. I said that. Out loud. Ask my cat. He heard me. He stared at me annoyingly before licking his hindquarters and haughtily sashaying out of the room.

I know that this little tidbit has probably been known by classical music lovers and Perry Como lovers for quite some time — that the composer of Till the End of Time, Ted Mossman, basically sampled Chopin’s song to create the melody for the 1945 hit song. Of course, people probably thought it was a brilliant “emulation” back then, whereas today, people refer to such a move as theft.

Anyway, perhaps you didn’t know, and you found this bit of information just as enlightening as I did. If you did, you’re welcome. If you didn’t, here’s the part of the blog where you haughtily sashay (click) away from this posting.