Silent Symphonist Gifts

'In an inexplicable attack of nerves, Elliot becomes the first person ever to screw up John Cage's 4'33'.

Silent music

A Symphony of Penguins

A Fairytale Update

Felix Mendelssohn

Jazz quartet, piano, bass, sax and drums

"And now, for your entertainment, I will drink a glass of water while Rempert, here, remains eerily silent."

Radiator jazz player

Drummer

See, Catty-O? I told you dinner was included with admission.

Frederic Chopin

Six jazz instruments.

In case of funky emergency, break glass

Double Saxophone

'I'm sure I could lie on my back waving my feet in the air if I could play the saxophone.'

'That was Charlie Parker's 'Ornithology.' I threw in a flat nine in bar 16 and a tritone substitution in bar 22. Who noticed that? Hands up if you noticed!'

Saxophonist playing on the map of Cornwall.

Giuseppe Verdi

Cesar Franck

The Land Before Mimes.

"No, son. Let him finish."

Red hot little combo

Antonin Leopold Dvorak

"Damn it, Hopkins, didn't you get yesterday's memo?"

'...and on Bass...'

But MOM! It's no fair being sick on a Saturday! Can't I take a rain check and be sick on Monday?

Musical Pipe

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

Edvard Grieg.

"Carl does go overboard when it comes to not waking the baby."

"The first rule of mime club is: You don’t talk about mime club."

Man playing bum-note.

James Levine

Man trying to catch a saxophonist with butterfly wings.

Anton Bruckner.