A full 15% of all web traffic is devoted to delivering digital cats to our cat-hungry world. Videos, pictures, memes, comics, whatever: we loves us our kitties.

Well, it’s about time I jumped on the wagon here and posted about cats! I would venture to say that less than .01% of Art Music is about cats, but I do know a few pieces. Some are obnoxiously silly, some are slightly bizarre, and then there’s this really cozy one from the Hermit Songs of Samuel Barber – a little song, sung by a monk to his furry study companion, Pangur.

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooo cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!