Andertoons by Mark Anderson for November 08, 2023

There should be at least one tarantella required by law.

Für Elise, side 2.

Followed by A Walk In the Black Forest.

Fur Elise > Sugar Magnolia!

A long time staple of student recitals.

I’d like to hear Fürless Elise!

So ‘Fur Elise’ is NOT about a female cat??? I always learn something on GoComics.

Indiana State School Music Association sponsors “solo/ensemble contest”, which is not really a contest as such, but a series of opportunities for students at each level to play and get feedback from a judge. I once had seven younger students who all chose the same easy solo. About the fifth time that the judge heard that same piano intro, she uttered an audible sigh.

Can we just “Roll over Beethoven” and proceed on to some Mozart?

P. G. Wodehouse wrote a story “The Song of Songs” about how Bertie’s butler Jeeves solved the problem of Bertie’s friend being romantically involved with an unsuitable opera singer.

Jeeves arranged for her to be invited to perform at the end of a public entertainment. He arranged for her to be delayed so that she arrived just before going onstage. In the meantime, Jeeves had arranged, by a variety of strategems for the song “Danny Boy” to be sung about twelve times by various amateurs.

Just before she went on, Jeeves asked Bertie’s friend (who had also been skillfully detained elsewhere) to suggest to her that she sing “Danny Boy”. Moments after she began her virtuoso performance, she was met with a barrage of boos, hisses and overripe fruit – neatly ending the unsuitable relationship.

P. G. Wodehouse – no one like him

I still hear the McDonald’s commercial.

to get through these performances, the audience will need to make an eroica effort…