I Love To Singa - Musical Selections

Musical Selections

• The first owlet hatched sang the opening bars of "Chi mi frena in tal momento" from the opera Lucia di Lammermoor. (Papa Fritz compared him to the great opera singer Enrico Caruso.)
• The second owlet to hatch played the beginning of "Träumerei" by Robert Schumann on the violin. (Papa Fritz compared him to the famous violinist Fritz Kreisler.)
• The third owlet, a flautist, played the first notes of "Spring Song" by Felix Mendelssohn from his work Songs without Words.
• The first known reject in the contest played a few bars of "Listen to the Mocking Bird" on the harmonica.
• The blackbird in the blue jacket played a few bars of "Nola", composed by Felix Arndt, on the saxophone.
• The bird with the accordion briefly played "Turkey in the Straw".
• The dark, operatic bird sang a line from the silent film Laugh, Clown, Laugh (even though the lyrics to the theme song don't have those actual words).
• The overweight bird got only a few notes of "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" sung before being rejected.
• The country bumpkin bird stuttered through the first and almost all of the second verse of the nursery rhyme Simple Simon before rejecting himself.