Beguine

A couple of years ago, I pushed my music-directing students to know their Latin rhythms.

Somehow, my exhortation that they had to know a beguine became a “thing,” and that “thing” continues to this day.

Somewhere along the way, their piano teacher Michael Horsley (Music Supervisor at the Muny, among other things) jumped on the wagon with a prompt that if I ever perform “Begin the Beguine,” I should enlist the students, as in this video.

So here’s a campy-but-not-80s-campy Liberace, performing “Begin the Beguine.”