That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 13, 2020

Between composing symphonies, Beethoven TRIED to relax by doing crossword puzzles.

Beethoven paused when heard a really loud knock on the door. It had a certain beat he couldn’t get out of his head.

“I think this scarf matches the lipstick and rouge perfectly, don’t you?”

“Let’s see, if Every Good Boy Does Fine, then this note is a G…I think.”

I’m erasing what I just wrote that means I’m De-composing

you can tell that gary oldman really hates signing autographs…

“Ooh yeah, baby, baby, baby, ooh yeah.”

As God is my witness……if you don’t get out of here, I’m going to step on your blue suede shoes!

The chief judge at a Julliard audition.

The first notes were based on a European bird’s song.

“In-a-gadda-da-vida baby.”

Given the current climate, I would go with the instrumental interlude before “Tequila.”

“Hmm…nine across…eight letter word…begins with ‘s’…ends with ‘y’..what the Hell could it be…”

i before e except after c and when… what?!

Dit dit dit dah – “V” in Morse code.

His last Sonata (#32) contains a section that actually does sound like jazz.

As Beethoven grew better known/his coiffure became quite overgrown/ his works have long flourished/ but his poor barber perished/ impoverished,sad, and alone.

Just then he was interrupted by, knock knock knock “Beethoven”, knock knock knock “Beethoven”, knock knock knock “Beethoven”.

In the end, he wrote his Fifth Symphony and left the “Wacht Arf” theme for Wagner.

He’s makin’ a list, and checkin’ it twice….

I still find it awe inspiring and incredible that Beethoven, totally deaf by the time it premiered, never heard a single note of his epic ninth symphony. In Watership Down, Richard Adams wrote a phrase about him (and I’m paraphrasing from memory, because I can’t find it at the moment) walking the countryside with “the voice of God pounding like the sea in the ruined shells of his ears.”

Now that I’m stone cold deaf I guess I’ll have to bust a move into Rap:

DIE POLIZEI SIND ARSCHLOCHEN!

SOLL ICH DAS WIEDERHOLEN?

maybe DOO-WAH-DIDDY-DO-WAH.

One, two, three, look at Mr. Lee.

A four letter word for “end movement.” Should I use “stop” or “halt”?

I was always more inclined towards the “Boom-chicka-boom”. Don’t you just love it?

By sheer coincidence, just before I looked at the comics today, I was listening to Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge in B-flat. A fairly incomprehensible (for me, anyway) and almost painful composition.

“It has finally come down to this” thought Ludwig. “I’m the only one that’s allowed to cover the White House press conferences.”

Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven when composing the Missa Solemnis: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beethoven.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

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

http://www.artnet.com/artists/joseph-karl-stieler/ 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25084692/joseph-karl-stieler 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/s/stieler/biograph.html 

https://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Joseph_Karl_Stieler/11132202/Joseph_Karl_Stieler.aspx 

https://prabook.com/web/joseph.stieler/2248329 

https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz81422.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Google Chrome can automatically translate as necessary, and the askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to than what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 3 works attributed to him by Mr. Melcher have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2017/06/26?comments=visible 

has the prior (actually by a follower of his; my comment there included 1 of the artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2426 (April 12, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

50 musicians playing loud and fast was the rock and roll of its time.

should have gone with chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom or Ooga-chaka Ooga-Ooga :-)

What do you mean no one is allowed to attend the performance?

((“WTF was I thinking about?”))

While you are out … can you get me …

Milk

Eggs

Paper Towels

Toilet Paper

Trash bags

Hand sanitizer

…

The following is a transcript of the last “knock knock” joke to be played on his mentor and former teacher, Ludwig van Beethoven. This dialogue took place in the early 1820s during one of Spohr’s final visits with his old friend.

Spohr: “Knock knock!”

Beethoven: . . .

Spohr: (louder) “Knock knock!”

Beethoven: . . .

Spohr: (even louder) “KNOCK KNOCK!”

Beethoven: . . .

“What do you mean ‘Roll Over’?”

Beethoven paused…“hmmm, I wonder how a little more cowbell would sound right here?”