Twenty-five Going on Two Hundred and Twenty-six

I was in my car on a Wednesday afternoon, on my way to pick up some lunch.

Contestant on the radio: Well, blah-blah ba-blah-blah, And I play a mean didgeridoo.
Guy on the radio 1: Do you have one with you?
Contestant on the radio: Yes, as a matter of fact.
Guy on the radio 2: He didgeri-does, Bob.
All: (smug old man laugh) Huh-Huh-Huh-Huh!
Guy 1: Well let’s play our Piano Puzzle. (guy on the radio 2) will play a song in the style of a piano composer, and you can figure out what song it is, and what composer he is imitating. I don’t know what we are going to hear, so we can work together to figure it out.
Contestant: All right.
Guy 2: (begins to play a song)

Me: (in my head) Oooh, pretty….. Wait! I know this style! It was on that CD of classical music that my mother got for free, and I wouldn’t let her throw it away. It was gray. What composer is this?

(20 seconds later)

Huh. This sounds exactly like Some Enchanted Evening…

(Singing) you will see a strangeeeerrr aaaaaacrooooosss a crrrroooowwwwded roooooom…. And once you have found her- never let her gooooooooo once you have found her neeeeeeeeeeeeeveeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr leeeeeeeeeeeeeeetttttttt heeeeeeeeeeeerr gooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Guy 1: That was cute.
Guy 2: (rich old man chuckle) I know, we don’t often get to play cute pieces.
Guy 1: Mmm-Hmmm, Do you have any guesses?
Contestant: The style was Chopin.
Guy 1: That is correct.
Contestant: And the song was Some Enchanted Evening.

Me (talking to the radio): Of course it was.

Guy 1: Wow, that is amazing. You answered that very quickly. Any other information you have?
Contestant: From South Pacific by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Guy 1: Will you tell us how you blended this piece?
Guy 2: Well, Some Enchanted Evening, has a very early 19th centrury drawing room feel, and Chopin’s minute waltz, which is actually Mi-nute not Min-ute, blended quite nicely if you take the intro (plays intro) and play some of the notes backwards (plays again).

Me: How fantastically clever!

Guy 1: Well, we have some time left. Could you delight us again?
Guy 2: Of course!

(plays song again)

Me: (Continues to sit in car, rather than go in to the resturant, to hear song a second time with a big stupid grin on her face)

Song ends.

Contestant: Bravo!
Guy 2: Thank you.

Me: Well I am definitely enchanted. (smug old lady chuckle)... (Realizes she is alone in her car) ::clears throat and looks around:: Ugh. I need a shot of 93X stat.