Cinema Maestro Gifts

Director's Day Off

'On your mark. Get set. Create!'

"Let's say you've always wanted to make someone a mixtape to show them how much you care about them. What's the best order? Do you start with songs about how rich you are before moving on to the songs about love? Or vice versa?. . .What order would best simulate sincerity?"

Horti-Culture

'Fred, I want you to sanitize this, punch it up, dumb it down, leak it to the media and then be fully prepared to deny it!'

"Now we move over to the sports desk."

Piano and Pianist with broken legs.

Hildegard von Bingen

Mendelssohn Finds His Inspiration

'By golly, I think we've got ourselves a prodigy!'

Dynamite little combo

'Sure I'm late. . . I not only have to get ready for school. . . now I have to get ready in case some idiot takes my picture for YouTube.'

Trilby - 'A voice he didn't understand'.

"I guess someone got up on the wrong side of the podium today."

A baby playing on a grand piano

Orchestra conductor

Quartet.

Malcolm Sargent

Kultural K9's.

"You're writing a memoir? You're seven years old. Do you honestly think you can capture the interest of readers with such a short—wait, is that my name?!"

Kirsten Johnson

'I'm a SNOOOW-Man,...doo-doot-doo-doo, doo-doot-doo-doo, I'm a SNOOOW-Man!...'

Edvard Grieg

'He's working on a lullaby.'

Street Organ - Monkey

"I solve mathematical problems, program electronic music, analyze environmental issues...but being a renaissance man isn't what it used to be."

'Like many studs of my generation, I have always had a love affair with the harmonica.'

The Drummer

"The time has come for some tough cost-cutting decisions, and I'm forced to ask myself, do we really need a bass?"

Teacher getting the childrens attention by pretending to be on television.

Painting

I will be Bach.

Musical Eye Test

Singer and her microphone

Sergei Taneyev