Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for January 06, 2023

As if there were mambos in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Beethoven’s Symphony Mambo No. 5

♪ Papa loves mambo, Mama loves mambo ⁠♪

But mamma LOVES mambo!

Piano Sonata #32 in C minor, Arietta movement comes pretty close, about 6:00 in. Only briefly, though.

That sonata songs!

GC has skipped another Sunday strip. Yesterday (1/10) and today’s (1/11) strips ran on Monday and Tuesday in 1955. Here is the skipped Sunday strip:

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1955/01/09

The name given to my mother cat only I spell it mombo.

Hmph. From that list, you’d think he never wrote Fidelio either, so the source clearly isn’t reliable.

What about the flight of the bumble bee?

“When everything gets you down…you get up…and mambo!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv7v4MJcD74

Thanks for the bucket list, CB and Schroeder… I still have the check off that horn sonata and string trios (all are really early works by B.)

Mambo Jumbo.

Well, a passage from the 3d movement of Piano Concerto N° 1 sounds very much like Tico-Tico. You’ll find it here, at 33’08". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abL—9pihnI