Classical Barbie

On the way to kindergarten today we were listening to 88.9 FM, Minnesota's Public Radio station, and Sofi asked me to turn it up. They were playing Peter Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty: Waltz being performed by the Vienna Philharmonic.

Expressing some surprise at her interest, Sofi replied: "This is what Barbie dances to!" Of course, I should have expected; where else would her interest in classical music stem from!

She's probably referring to one of her favorite DVDs, Barbie and the 12 Dancing Princesses. And to Sofi's credit, she may actually be correct; that DVD, along with several other Barbie DVDs, has classical music (or what at least sounds like classical music) as part of its soundtrack.

While I'm not a big fan of Barbie (I've been known to ban her from being checked out from the library) due to impression she can leave regarding physical appearance on the mind of our young, impressionable daughter, I will give Barbie this credit (and my Mom has said this before): she does a good job of promoting the arts.