This coffee break continues the journey on the far reaches of what can be called music. We listen to a piece from composer Miguel Del Aguila then careen into a discussion of Frank Zappa playing bicycle on the old Steve Allen Show. Did Dvorak anticipate ragtime music? We listen to The American Suite and hear the familiar syncopation hidden into a standard classical composition. Wait, what! Airplane engines in an orchestra? What was George Antheil, the bad boy of music, thinking?

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Listen to a complete piece by Miguel Del Aguila

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=tppwijrN18o

Here's Frank Zappa on the Steve Allen Show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MewcnFl_6Y