Thanks Nel

Another of those nice seasonal surprises -- our friend Nel the Bell sent this link this morning.

Plotnik forgets his songs get sung by choirs, because he never gets to hear any of them. There are a lot of them on U-Tube now so he'll maybe invest a little time today and see what's out there.

These kids are really cute. And the way a composer figures out where he got a little bit too inventive with his melody is to listen to the way they changed it for kids to be able to sing it. This simple way, just about no matter what the composer thinks, is the way a song will be repeated and remembered.

It's also fun for Plottie to hear the pianist playing his piano line, which is usually not changed much at all. He can barely remember how to play these songs any more -- maybe he ought to go buy the sheet music.

And now he knows it's pronounced "Ha-Nick-Ah."