Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for June 28, 2016

Cannot be Ludwig’s Fifth, can it?

I notice that he doesn’t look like a toddler any more.

With a jump like that, he could be doing rock and roll.

Looks to me like John Cage performing “Variations on a Theme by Yoko Ono”. Or, well yeah, Jerry Lee Lewis as someone said.

The Fifth is a symphony. Schroeder is more likely playing a sonata, perhaps the Pathetique.

Schroeder should do that when Lucy is bothering him.

Pianists do a lot of acrobatics playing Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody, or at least they do in the cartoons.

This is the beginning of Beethoven’s Sonata No. 29, Op. 106, the “Hammerklavier.”

dha dha dha dhaaaan! dha dha dha dhaaaan!

And a 9.5 on the vault!

In a lecture series by Seattle Symphony I learned that in his day Beethoven’s music was considered “inappropriate” for well-bred young ladies as it might “incite indelicate passions”. Glad they’re not around these days, they might actually stroke out…

I have no idea what he’s playing! I can’t hear a thing from this comic…

I’m thinking John Goodman as King Ralph.

Is this a repeat? I feel like I’ve seen this one before.

Also, I know it’s not the first time the Hammerklavier’s shown up. Schulz must have really liked that one.