Tune-loving Traditionalist Gifts

Caroler

Bryan Ferry

Playing Mozart to the baby.

"Charming, absolutely charming."

"...is somebody playing Wonderwall?"

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking, and this is your captain siiinnngiiinnng."

"I'm Baroque without you!"

Lord of the Strings.

Jean Sibelius.

'Grandpa call it easy listening, but it's not.'

'The King replaced me with easy listening!'

'Stop Hamish! You're playing ma haggis!'

Soto

Jimi Hendrix

"It's time."

"Tonight I shall be humming Chopin's Sonata..."

Emmanuel Ax

'Whoever told you it was a travel-cello was lying.'

'I'd feel very fortunate if I were you. My music WAS appreciated in my lifetime, and then played to death in elevators and shopping malls!'

'If you sing 'If I Had a Hammer' one more time, I'm going to hit you with one.'

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Lulav and Etrog Fencing

'Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to go to bed...'

Dmitriy Kabalevskiy

"How do you have more followers than me? I play Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi. All you have is a weird face."

Old McDonald cracks down: 'Knock it off! E-I-E-I-O!'

Did you know Mozart died young to avoid muzak?

Earrings again this year?

'...But first, our national anthem.'

'Let's stick with your original 'Star Spangled Banner,' and pretend there never was this dance-remix version.'

Snake charmer thinks his snake is losing it.

"Everybody was kung-fu fighting."

"Your duties will be simple, Wilkins – pass the bottle when I get dry and brush away the blue-tail fly."

Yodel

Man leaving School of Music: They suggestd I switch from a violin to a CD player.