Budding Conductor Gifts

Orchestra

I should be a writer when I grow up...

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

'I love your playing....especially when you stop!'

"Abstract Expressionism is definitely right for me at this stage of my career."

Child drawing fish from life by putting his head in a pond.

Double Bass

'Can you tell me what I've written? I can't read!'

'With my parents out of the house, I can finally start my long awaited mural project.'

" 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation,' a treatment by Todd Mozelle, Grade Three."

"Someday you'll see my work in the employee break room at the Met."

"... And his piano teacher says that he definitely has Van Gough's ear for music."

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit, today, sir - a ream of paper and a half-dozen pencils.'

'I have a feeling one day when he grows up he'll be an artist of some kind.'

Timpani.

'Do I have to be creative?'

Creative Baby.

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."

'All good things must come to an end.'

Mum has a bad judgement day - Well OK, you can take it to your room as long as you play it quietly.

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

"Isn't it obvious? I'm writing the great American graphic novel."

"There's the pressure from my public, naturally, as well as the pressure from my publisher, my agent, and all that. But the real pressure comes from that devil inside that makes me different from other men, that makes me a writer. But, of course, you know all about pressure, grinding out those papers at Sarah Lawrence."

Jackson Pollock as a child

Lessons from the Blakely Art School (Now Defunct)

'I'm not sure if he plays that loud because he has a good set of lungs or if it's a mean streak in him.'

Teacher to student: 'Nice use of glitter, but you were assigned to do math problems.'

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

"That' a wonderful picture, sweetheart. You know, maybe we should keep all of this garbage, in case you become a famous artist."

"It's supposed to be a comedy, so I've had Steve, here, red-flag the funny parts."

'I can't find the words to express my anger with you.' - 'She needs a dictionary.'

Children's Publishing - Child's portrait of 'Our Founder'.

'Don't be hard on the boy, dear, I'm sure that Van Gogh's first sunflowers weren't so hot.'