That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 07, 2021

“If I pose like this, maybe I can fool people into thinking I can read music.”

“What? It’s e-g-b-d-F? Oh well, back to the drawing board.”

A while ago, there was a question as to whether Mozart was actually buried in the grave attributed to him, so a team of forensic experts dug up his grave. But when they opened the coffin, they found his body covered in sheet music. One of diggers turned to a forensic expert and ask him ’What’s the body doing?" The expert replied “de-composing”

“I could put my name on this piece, Haydn wouldn’t miss it.”

Mozart was supposed to be doing his homework, but he kept getting distracted by the girl two seats over.

Thus Charles Rousseau Burney now quips: / “He comes here — he’ll be scourged with whips!” / “We won’t trifle or toy / with that damned ‘Blue Boy’ / as long as he’s one of the Crips.”

Jerry finally wears the “puffy shirt”

Dr. Burney, after having lent his sensuous score and erotic libretto to his son-in-law, tries to imagine another reason so many pages are now stuck together.

“They seek him here, they seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That demned elusive Pimpernel.”

— Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

Though it sounded “allegro vivace”/ the Mozart’s were just playing bocce/- but the roommate depicted/ is clearly afflicted/ by the influence of Liberace.//// The crescendo would rise to a peak/ on an evening later that week/ when Frau Mozart would toot/ old Mo’s “Magic Flute”/ and make Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.//// The Mozart’s their guest did dislodge/ from his lodgings beneath their garage./ (Tis said he’s abidin’/ with old “Papa” Haydn/ and the Esterhazy menage)..//// And thus doth the requiem end/ with the Mozart’s losing a friend/ but (to the contrary)/ it wasn’t Salieri/ upon whom the blame shall descend.//// The Viennese School (as we know)/ was outmoded a long time ago/ but the orchestras play us/ works by Amadeus/ every day on the radio.

Ahhhh, Bach…

What a joy to thrust and parry/ Ya know I love you, Herr Salieri!

“Oh, now I get it. This is the ‘look’ Prince was after, but in purple, not red!”…….makes me wonder if he didn’t steal some music as well.

Mozart can’t even hear it himself.

“I’m just going over my notes before we get started.”

I’m supposed to play this live right now – it has 5 sharps!

Celebrated musician and nephew of the artist.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436431

PIANO TUNER: HEY BUDDY. I’m tuning this thing to an Open G so you can play Brown Sugar, Honky Tonk Woman and other Stones songs more accurately.

PHIL EVERYLY: DAMMIT DON! STOP STARING AT LAST FRIDAY’S That Is Priceless AND HELP ME FINISH Wake Up Little Suzie!!!

Where did my last song hit on Billboard?

Wally had always hoped to be a Butlin’s Redcoat.

Haydn in plain sight.

When Wolfgang said he was going into the other room to perform Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, this wasn’t what Karl was expecting to hear.

Charles Rousseau Burney:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Rousseau_Burney_(1747%E2%80%931819)_MET_DP162157.jpg

has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size, circa 1780 painting.

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

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/gainsbor/gainsborough_bio.htm

http://www.artnet.com/artists/thomas-gainsborough

https://www.askart.com/artist_bulletins/Thomas_Gainsborough/9000228/Thomas_Gainsborough.aspx

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/570/thomas-gainsborough-english-1727-1788

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gainsborough_thomas.shtml

https://www.pictorem.com/profile/Thomas.Gainsborough

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12118/thomas-gainsborough

https://www.wikiart.org/en/thomas-gainsborough

https://prabook.com/web/thomas.gainsborough/3724455

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/g/gainsbor/biograph.html

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/european-art-1600-present-biographies/thomas-gainsborough

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/thomas-gainsborough.htm

http://www.all-art.org/history294-18.html

https://hoocher.com/Thomas_Gainsborough/Thomas_Gainsborough.htm

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 5 works by him have been used here.

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2014/10/16?comments=visible

has the prior, which while my comment is still there, with the line breaks removed, its 22 hyperlinks remain mute, ?&@#!#%&!, but the text may be informative.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2721 (June 6, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Their lifespans, both Haydn’s and Handel’s/ were remarkably free of scandal/ (although I’ve heard said)/ that both smoked in bed/ and were known to wear white socks with sandals..

He had good reason to be worried. It’s never good to come unprepared for music lessons with your father-in-law.

Doctor Burney awaits the archduke, / and he hopes he won’t meet with rebuke. / His coat of cerise / had nary a crease, / but he wished he had washed his peruke.

My shirt isn’t frilly! That’s my chest hair!