Sheet Music Savant Gifts

Sonata #39 for Cello & Tuba.

Conductor with video-head

Felix Mendelssohn

"I love your optimism."

Sir Edward Elgar

'We don't know what the final result will look like, but the movie rights have already been optioned.'

Antonin Leopold Dvorak

Tax Collector

Poetry repairman

"I don't want to play for the audience. I want to play for the fans."

A saxophone player reads music that says, 'Dade, dade, dade, dade, dade, deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee' with the eeeeeeees falling off the music stand onto the floor.

"People mistakenly think that we accountants are all boring number crunchers, but the latest figures show that 54% of the 23% of people who responded to a survey were 45% in favour of us being 12% more interesting than average!"

Piano Prompt

"I carefully examine the data for March madness brackets and every year I lose to Anita, who picks by uniform colors."

'The music business.'

'Every single piece of homework handed in this morning - there couldn't have been much on TV last night!'

"Yeah, the Declaration of Independence is beautiful! What font is that?"

'It says 'three percent split infititives, 8 percent passive verbs, 16 percent compound-complex sentences,average sentence length 26 words,paperback rights $3.2 million,movie sales $8.3 million,total take $11.5 million,less 5 percent agents fees.'

Anton Bruckner.

Sleeping musician

Required Reeding.

'What was your entry, 'Rob Peter to Pay Paul all about?'

Ode to Rip Van Winkle.

"They say you're a miracle worker, so I'm wondering if you could part my sea of red ink?"

Algernon Swinburne

Deadly sales figures...

"I wrote a song, but it's not finished. You wanna hear it?"

Precussionist

Woman in booksotre looking at books labeled 'Highly Graphic Novels.' Covers of books show various charts, graphs, spreadsheets.

Wallpaper Music

...After the argument escalated, neighbors say the husband, a composer, threatened to smother his wife with his sheet music. Before anyone could help, witnesses say he'd already begun killing her softly with his song.

Benjamin Britten

Sergei Prokofiev.

There were drastic cutbacks in the orchestra's budget.

'Guys, could we try a different inversion?...Guys?'