Enjoying Piano Music Gifts

'You know, it's kind of nice turning off the sound, turning on closed caption, and listening to piano music.'

Baby Piano

Rhapsody in Blue.

Felix Mendelssohn

"Hey, pal, let's hear 'Doggie in the Window' again, and this time play it like you mean it!"

"Well, that's the only song we know, so we can play it another two or three times, or we can cut our losses. Waddya say, Cleveland?"

Concert Pianist.

'Wash your hands, it's time for your piano lessons.'

"You'd think he hated music by the way he tortures it."

"This next one is my own quirky rendition of Berlioz's 'Symphonie Fantastique,' Movement 5, 'Dream of a Witches' Sabbath.'"

Piano Recital

Grand. Baby Grand. Toddler Grand. Teen Grand.

Piano and Pianist with broken legs.

"I was going to play the Moonlight Sonata, but I forgot the key."

Mendelssohn Finds His Inspiration

Girl to boy, 'Mom says don't play it again, Sam.'

'Other dogs howl at the moon, I've trained mine to play Bach.'

Piano Keyboard

A baby playing on a grand piano

"How about we write a song combining Brexit with unrequited love?"

"This number goes out to all the little people I met on my way back down."

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

'I'm a virtuoso on the middle pedal.'

Frederic Chopin

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

'My next selection is a protest song against piano lessons.'

Fun (circa 1955)

"Eventually the instrument becomes an extension of your body."

"What's remarkable is that just last week he was lying despondent on the beach."

'After hours of rehearsing together, little Judy Barlow is going to play 'Three Blind Mice' while her father screams, 'Keep that racket down, will ya?''

'Take me to you lieder.'

Edvard Grieg

Serenading

Sonata for Piano and Dog

"Here's something for all you animal lovers out there..."