Symphony Showman Gifts

'Piano Player'

Academic Idol - 'Professor Johannsen's paper was zippy. It had robust vocabulary and I almost felt that I could dance to it. I would give it a 7.'

Felix Mendelssohn

'Wow, Jimmy, that's pretty good!'

Jarvis Cocker

'I'll be conducting Mahler 3 as the guests arrive.'

Sir Edward Elgar

Edward Elgar.

Pianist carrying his instrument.

Antonin Leopold Dvorak

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

"It also doubles as a karaoke machine."

Jerry's dancing dogs

"Congratulations on your entertaining presentation skills Smith, and the way they hide your dismal sales figures!"

'So let this be a lesson to you Courtney, 'there's no people like showpeople!''

"I promised myself I would never let this happen to me."

Anton Bruckner.

The Abominable Showman...

'I seek an audience with the king.'

Ralph Vaughan Williams

An interview with Codlin and Short

Benjamin Britten

Sergei Prokofiev.

"Miss Rudolf... you're pregnant!"

Elvis

'You doubtless remember my speech last year...'

'Show off!'

Ludwig van Beethoven

"It's a letter from Bruce. He's touring in Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show..."

Quartet of Chefs

"Oscar, we need a good actor to present the accounts at the next tax audit meeting."

P.T. Barnum caricature.

Penn and Teller

Benjamin Britten.

Punch in the churchyard