Impromptus

I always enjoy Jay Nordlinger's Impromptus columns. Here's an excerpt from his latest: "A quick musical note: I was in a store (not the flower shop). All of a sudden, I hear Rachmaninoff’s C-minor piano concerto — but I was not hearing a recording of that concerto. I was hearing “All by Myself,” the old pop song. The Rachmaninoff in it was clear as day. Kind of interesting. You know the song “Never Gonna Fall in Love Again”? Slow movement of Rachmaninoff’s Symphony in E minor.
And Google knows everything. Come to find out — maybe you knew this — both songs are by Eric Carmen. Rachmaninoff is a wonderful composer to borrow from. But you would think that someone named Carmen would borrow from Bizet (as plenty of songwriters have, believe me)."