A Piano and an accordion (piano accordion) meet and share their artistic, cultural and social baggage. The piano with its highbrow connotations and the accordion with its highbrow/lowbrow roots take a journey into atemporal time and space where the bistro meets the salon. The accordion adds orchestration t the piano. It makes a coy, ironic response to the Chopin Preludes with the Chopin Accordion Preludes (Realities by Schimmel, not transcriptions). In the Frosini Rhapsody No. 2 (The Vaudevillian Pathetique), The accordion blatantly and skillfully imitates Beethoven’s Pathetique. Thus, two cultures meet-with no apologies or pretensions to create a third dimension, a dramatic presentation in past, present, and future.