A tuba coincidence?   What are the odds?  I mean, it was just on
Friday that I blogged about the mystery of the purloined tubas. 
Then today, the very next weekday, it's the birth anniversary of
the late George Kleinsinger.  Funny how often things work out
that way.  Wait a minute ... you don't know who George
Kleinsinger was?  Harrumph!  Yet another example of the shameful
state of American arts education.*  To clue you in, George
Kleinsinger was a composer and conductor from San Bernardino,
California.  After studies at New York University and Juilliard,
and service in World War II, he wrote scores for recordings
("archy and mehitabel", based on a cartoon series about a
cockroach and an alley cat), Broadway ("Shinbone Alley", based
on the "archy and mehitabel" record), television ("Greece - The
Golden Age", and "John Brown's Body") and popular singers
("Christmas Is a Feeling In Your Heart", "Toujours Gai", "The
Growing-Up Tree").  Later, he was one of the many artistically
significant denizens of New York'