Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for March 26, 2017

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    Adiraiju  over 7 years ago

    Ho ho ho…

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 7 years ago

    Which variation of “Jingle Bells”? A) Deck them halls and all that stuff or B) Santa Claus and ho-ho-ho and mistletoe and presents to pretty girls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcsFcQJeycM

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    Professor W  over 7 years ago

    What will Schroeder next play, Silent Night?

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 7 years ago

    Why not Terry Riley’s in C?

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    cubswin2016  over 7 years ago

    I can name that tune in three notes.

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    Godfreydaniel  over 7 years ago

    I always name that tune in one. (’Course, I always get it wrong……)

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    ahem Premium Member over 7 years ago

    Another way of looking at this is that it might just mean that Schroeder is in actuality a really bad pianist and it’s only in his mind that he is a musical prodigy (cf. Snoopy as a WWI fighting ace). So it could be akin to a kid holding up his artistic masterpiece for his mother to guess what it’s of and so she hems & haws hoping to stumble upon the right answer, never does, and then finally he blurts out that it’s a portrait of her of course.

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    The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member over 7 years ago

    I was always impressed by the familiarity with the classics (or at least their titles and composers) that Charlie Brown displayed in this strip. Not bad for a five-year-old who isn’t the prodigy that Schroeder is.

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    JD'Huntsville'AL  over 7 years ago

    Don’t be embarrassed CB. I’m impressed you knew the names of all those other works.

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    bmckee  over 7 years ago

    Theme and Variations on Jingle Bells. I once heard Yehudi Menuhin and Stefan Grapelli play something on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show.” I figured out that it was “Tea For Two”…eventually.

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    wiatr  over 7 years ago

    I do this on some “Jeopardy” questions – overlook the simple answers and go for something more complicated.

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    naplllp  over 7 years ago

    THAT’S IT!!!

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    evsxrk  over 7 years ago

    It’s odd that Charlie Brown could fail to recognize “Jingle Bells”, even it wasn’t as badly overplayed in those days (I for one could live without hearing it played incessantly every Xmas season). Maybe Schroeder’s playing an elaborate version that makes the melody less obvious, though that’d be easier to imagine if he was playing a jazz version. After all, even when Mozart played his variations on the French children’s song “Ah vous dirai-je, maman” (the tune used for “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”), the original melody is still quite recognizable.

    While I’ve gotten rather tired of hearing “Jingle Bells”, I do find it fascinating that its writer, James Pierpont, was the uncle of the banker John Pierpont Morgan.

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