Beethoven’s Wig 4: Dance Along Symphonies.

Kids familiar with earlier titles in the popular Beethoven’s Wig symphony series find themselves on familiar ground in this latest collection of “classic music pieces written especially for dance,” all set to zany lyrics. The term classic music expansively covers opera, ragtime, waltz, polka, sonata, and march music. The songs are irresistibly infectious and fun. Soon everyone (including adults) will be singing the lyrics to “Maple Leaf Rag” (“Faster, faster, hurry faster, got to save her from disaster”) or bopping along to the tongue-tangling refrain of “Annen Polka” (“Be a good doggie, good doggie now Rover; Be a good doggie now, Rover, roll over”). And who would think “Moonlight Sonata” could be a perfect orchestral backdrop to a song about beeping horns? The 12 vocal renditions are followed by the same 12 selections presented as instrumentals. Although a lyric booklet is included, there is no support material that identifies composers and origins of each song.