The local Symphony Orchestra gave a Valentine's Day concert (a day early), and the main program item was Camille Saint-Saens's so-called Organ Symphony.
We attended it with great expectation—mostly because the theater—unlike many music-halls does not have an Organ, and we were wondering how they would manage the organ part, and also because this piece was one of my wife's favorites.
Well, it was fabulous. There are so many 'earworms', bits of music in the work that keep nagging at you for days! This is a wonderful piece for anyone to get into: very tuneful indeed! The composer is not widely considered one of the 'greats', because the music is not very 'learned'; it is very accessible; more accessible even than Tchaikovsky, though—as I recently said about composers—you just can't rank them on any criterion.
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