Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for June 14, 2020

so much for positive critique on music

The actual line is “Musick has charms to soothe a savage breast”, which is the first line of the play “The Mourning Bride” by William Congreve.

Nobody can speak on a Beethoven played by Schroeder . Nobody can speak on Beethoven , never !

Beethoven got annoyed when he was playing a new piece and some rich, fashionable folks sat there and talked through it. He had much the same reaction as Schroeder.

All talk and no music.

Geniuses are temperamental!

I’m with Schroeder on this one, you can’t possibly listen to music and talk at the same time. Especially when invited to listen to specially picked out music.

They had to face the music because they didn’t listen to it?

Please… Mozart. – Major Charles Emerson WInchester III, M.D. (David Ogden Stiers, M-A-S-H)

Ironically, I think this is the first instance of Schroeder speaking…

This kind of endless yakking reflects my experiences over many years in concert halls, back when we could actually still go to concert halls (sigh). My sister is a “multi-tasker,” while I prefer to focus on one thing at a time.

I believe he should have first stopped the record and asked them to be quiet then tried playing it again. Then if they kept talking he should have kicked them out. True, he should have asked for some silence before he even started the record, but They clearly would have ignored that.