Classical background music ?

The majority of it is Louis Silvers original composition, but he did borrow liberally from Tchaikowsky. The most notable is when the cantor bursts in on Al and mamma singing and the dialogue stops and fades into Romeo & Juliet of all things!

"If you don't know the answer -change the question."

The deathbed music, played twice when the father is sick, is Claude Debussy's "Beau Soir."