That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 28, 2020

Things you have to put up with to stay in grandpa’s will.

After threat of being skewered for missing a beat, the tambourine player ran away in terror.

Looks more like he’s auditioning for Queequeg; right Ishmael?

“How to defend your chamber music group from attack with a point-ed stick!”

“Heyyy, Mr. Tambourine Man, do a silly walk for me…”

John Philip Sousa’s attempt at a string quartet failed miserably.

Surprise.

Dance, dance, wherever you may be

I am the lord of the dance, said he

And I lead you all, wherever you may be

And I lead you all in the dance, said he

( Lord of the Dance by Sydney Carter)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3LJgXcTayA

i do believe he’s giving the audience the finger…

Lord of the chamber calling for his pot.

Cello, Recorder and Gustav: an assault on your senses for the entr’acte.

Just right for the SuperBowl

Everyone thought it was fun and games until he started poking out people’s eyes.

I thought that the director was supposed to stand calmly in front of the players, not march around them with an upraised stick. No wonder the tambourine player ran away. The two remaining musicians are sitting, cowed, in the corner.

Can’t beat this music with a stick!

No one dared mention the staff that Simon used to win the musical chairs competition.

“Conductors Gone Wild” ! ( Leonard Bernstein conducts Mahler !)

“Gramps been at the Elixir again, ain’t he, Mom?”

The earliest known record of conducting as interpretive dance.

The day the parrot couldn’t take anymore and started a life of swearing.

Kids today with their music. In my day, there was almost no stabbing during songs.

Woody Harrelson stepping into the role of Prof. Harrold Hill.

“Hit Me With You’re Rhythm Stick”

Sir, could I just suggest…….maybe it needs more cowbell?

“Beat me, Daddy, eight to the bar..”

Great comments today! I’m not going to try to match them; only applaud!

The Minister’s March or Reverend Griswold Raising Cane

ONE wrong note gets this finger up your nose. TWO gets this stick in your eye. THREE GETS THIS FOOT UP YOUR ASS!

And he’s climbing a stairway to heaven.

The Power of Music: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Sword_Good_-_The_Power_of_Music.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size, oil on panel painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/good_thomas_sword.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=9199 

http://www.berwickfriends.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Newsletter-2001-June.pdf#page=13 

https://www.johnnicholsonfineart.co.uk/department/good_thomas_sword_hrsa_1789-1872/ 

https://prabook.com/web/thomas.good/1783835 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193774858/thomas-sword-good 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2371 (January 27, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. 

P.S. I’ve added a few e-mail communicated details (size, medium, acc. #) to yesterday’s title URL.

Good thing the parrot had been deaf for years.

!76 trombones led the big parade!

Sadly, the only way to get great grandfather to take his medicine and a nap was the daily silly folk dance. :>)

once the lively music started, old Reginald started to dance, giving away his secret of being gay to his family , of course they already knew it for a very long time.

Mad Magazine did a musical version of Moby Dick (also of Julius Caesar, Tarzan of the Apes, and A Tale of Two Cities) in response to Lerner and Loewe turning the classic Pygmalion into My Fair Lady. I think they’re reprinted in either Burning Mad or Polyunsaturated Mad. Could be another book. “If you’re amazed that my eyes are both glazed / It’s because of that blasted white whale.”

It was always an exciting rehearsal when Hector put methamphetamine on his Cheerios instead of powdered sugar.

The sad day when Professor Snitzel finally lost his Oooompah! :>)