For this week’s CDZA musical experiment video, Joe Sabia and the Collective Cadenza musicians teamed up with children to explore one way to “teach the classics to students today”—have them sing their favorite contemporary pop music lyrics to the tune of classical compositions. In this video, young Alyssa Lower and Aiden Medina perform:
Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik meets LMFAO’s Party Rock
Offenbach’s “Can Can” meets Gaga’s Bad Romance
Beethoven’s Fur Elise meets Adel’s Rolling in the Deep
Grieg’s Peer Gynt Overture meets Carly Rae Jepson’s Call Me Maybe
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony meets Katy Perry’s “Wide Awake”
Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy meets One Direction’s What Makes You Beautiful
Haydn’s Surprise Symphony meets Justin Bieber’s Baby
John William’s Jurassic Park Theme meets Psy’s Gangnam Style
Spoiler alert: it’s pretty adorable.