It was in sixth grade “art” class at Columbia Middle School, that I -- a 12-year old scholarship student freshly arrived from Russia with very limited English -- and my classmates, were asked to vote on a radio station to listen to during class. Everyone wanted to listen to Z100 -- everyone but me.

I don’t know how many of you read the sports pages for your dose of “Classical Onion” headlines, but here’s one which caught my eye this morning — Three cheers for Ben Shpigel. (The original story is here.)

Oy! A program of works by Osvaldo Golijov, Miguel de Aguila, Copland and Mendelssohn titled …. “DIRTY DANCING”! (and that’s just the first movie title of the Bach Dancing & Dynamite Series in Madison, Wisconsin.) Surely, this series is “pure protein”! 🙂