If your fluency in French, your handwriting and your flower arranging are as bad as your piano playing you’ll be out of that fancy school faster than you can blink.
Apparently no one was able to make up their mind about this painting. There are two titles. One is “The Piano Lesson”. The other is “Singing to the Reverend”. In the latter case, I wonder if the Reverend is contemplating what Hell might be like? However, I note the lack of a clerical collar.
(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly C3 envelope size painting.
has the prior strip (my comment there included the same artist info URLs).
Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1978 (June 19, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.
When she asked him to join her for a little “She Bangs,” this is not what he had in mind. He and Ricky Martin were both wrong, but not as wrong as this comment.
BE THIS GUY almost 6 years ago
“Six years at Julliard and I’m getting $20 per lesson for teaching "Camp Town Races.”
Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 6 years ago
“Tell me what are all these dots and lines supposed to mean?”
Strob Premium Member almost 6 years ago
“Ok, you’ve learned ‘Jump’ well enough; time to move on.”
PatsyL.Paul almost 6 years ago
“Gad! Someone please invent a phonograph or radio…or SOMETHING!”
pcolli almost 6 years ago
“Now try using the arpeggiator……. oops, sorry it hasn’t been invented yet.”
Bilan almost 6 years ago
Don’t feel bad, Dad. I never heard of Cardi B either.
And after finding out she’s just another rapper, I don’t think I’m missing anything.
TerBer almost 6 years ago
A rapper who can write music? I’ve yet to hear one who can sing.
aerotica69 almost 6 years ago
Cardi B and “song” in the same sentence? Is that irony or hyperbole?
Call me Ishmael almost 6 years ago
Methinks thou’rt ready to start a garage band. Now if someone will just invent the garage..
ptnjbrown almost 6 years ago
“I’m reading the latest Star Wars installment. Can you play something by John Williams?”
KEA almost 6 years ago
A Who?
thebashfulone almost 6 years ago
Thought balloon: “Why must she make that noise during her posture lesson?”
MissScarlet Premium Member almost 6 years ago
If your fluency in French, your handwriting and your flower arranging are as bad as your piano playing you’ll be out of that fancy school faster than you can blink.
J Short almost 6 years ago
Dad finally gives up trying to teach Pam to play it funky.
Pocosdad almost 6 years ago
“IIIIII AMMMMM IIRRRRRONNN MAAAAANNN”
PO' DAWG almost 6 years ago
“You keep playing, I’m going to see if you are breathing properly.”
Rev Phnk Ey almost 6 years ago
If you untie that bow her upper body falls off.
Pipe Tobacco Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Dad then states, “All those years of lessons in classical music… and you play me Cardi B?!?!? Bah!”
rugeirn almost 6 years ago
Apparently no one was able to make up their mind about this painting. There are two titles. One is “The Piano Lesson”. The other is “Singing to the Reverend”. In the latter case, I wonder if the Reverend is contemplating what Hell might be like? However, I note the lack of a clerical collar.
Radish the wordsmith almost 6 years ago
“‘Play that funky music white boy’ is inappropriate no matter how you spinet.”
mabrndt Premium Member almost 6 years ago
The Piano Lesson or Singing to the Reverend:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund_Blair_Leighton_-_Singing_to_the_reverend.jpg
(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly C3 envelope size painting.
https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/844
http://www.avictorian.com/Leighton_Edmund_Blair.html
http://hoocher.com/Edmund_Blair_Leighton/Edmund_Blair_Leighton.htm
all have info about this artist. So far, 35 works by him have been used here, with 2 repeated as Classics (37 times total).
http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/04/09?comments=visible
has the prior strip (my comment there included the same artist info URLs).
Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1978 (June 19, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.
Csaw Backnforth almost 6 years ago
Six years of piano lessons and all you can play is Chopsticks?
Linguist almost 6 years ago
“That song she’s singing, is definitely not from the hymnal” thinks the Rev. Piddlebottom.
6turtle9 almost 6 years ago
When she asked him to join her for a little “She Bangs,” this is not what he had in mind. He and Ricky Martin were both wrong, but not as wrong as this comment.
d1234dick Premium Member almost 6 years ago
piano professor Higgins can’t wait till she finishes the lesson, then on to more “training”.
Call me Ishmael almost 6 years ago
“A wop bom a loo bop, a womp bam boom!” How was that, your grace?"
CougarAllen almost 6 years ago
Love me or leave me …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEQpipS_qfc