We are Facebook friends and this afternoon he sent me on an odd trip down the rabbit hole with this video:



He said he shows this to his 5th graders when they claim the recorder isn't a real instrument.

So since I'm me, that link made me spend a good amount of time chasing Classical pieces played on the recorder around the innertubes



Turns out that Vivaldi had quite the recorder fetish, with several pieces for the instrument available



But there was a piece for recorder from some obscure composer I had barely ever heard mentioned as well

And the suddenly - Freaking Don Was shows up