A few months ago, there was a story about a church in Mexico that reappeared after lying at the bottom of a reservoir for centuries. Similarly, there’s a church in Venezuela that is sometimes wet, sometimes dry. Pretty cool stuff!

French impressionistic composer Claude Debussy was dreaming of this stuff one hundred years before. His “Submerged Cathedral” is a staple of the piano repertoire. Large chords remind us of tall stone towers, dominating a murky landscape, portrayed by murmuring notes in the bass. The image in this video looks like the church where King Triton would take Ariel and his daughters. No doubt, Sebastian played a mean bubble-organ there.

I hate election season. It’s just another version of professional wrestling, only with more name-calling and slightly less chair-throwing. (My apologies to pro. wrestlers for the comparison. I hope you aren’t insulted. Please don’t throw a chair at me.)

American composer Steven Mark Kohn has written a piece which pokes playfully at a politician’s speech. If only the real thing were this enjoyable.

Austrian violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler is known as a hot-dog violinist and his compositions, both of which were warm, juicy, and sweet. His best-loved work is Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen, three short pieces for violin and piano that recall the sound of, well, Old Wieners (er, old Vienna).

Written in 1905, Kreisler knew this musical style was out of fashion. For some stupid reason, there is an unspoken rule that new Art Music needs to be fresh and forward-looking, and that imitating or stealing another’s music is bad. So, he attributed the work to Joseph Lanner, who was a genuine Old Wiener Alt-Wiener Viennese romantic, with no artificial fillers. Once the piece became famous, Kreisler removed Lanner’s name and took credit for the music.

I’m telling ya, you never sausage a great violinist!