Are you using Chopin to Sell My Child a Video Game?
Or is your video game selling my child Chopin?
Eddie has been taking time away from "The World of Dorkcraft" (in the words of his sister). Transfixed by the commercials for Halo3 he has been spending a lot of time teaching himself Chopin's Prelude in D Flat Major (Raindrops), Opus 28, No. 15, mostly by watching a YouTube video of someone playing the piece. (Sheet music on the way!) There hasn't really been any discussion about Halo3, which is fine with me. And we've branched out into a little study of Chopin (without being too heavy handed, lest my enthusiasm taint the atmosphere).

I will cede this skirmish to the TV, since I am not sure if I would have had the same success by traditional music appreciation methods.

(And we've come up with some interesting mnemonics:
1) Explaining Chopin's romance with George Sand...there is no DUDE in Aurore Lucile Dupin Dudevant.
2) Chopin shares Mom's birthday; George Sand shares Daddy's)