One day, a bassoonist for a symphony got very sick and spent a whole day of rehearsal in the hospital. He recovers and is sent home to see his house surrounded by police cars. He goes up to the officer in charge and asks, "Officer, what happened?" "Well," the officer said, "while you were away, t...
What instrument do musically-inclined scientists play?
The Higgs-Bassoon.
In 1952 the New York Philharmonic was on a national tour...
...and on their way home from the west coast when their flight was grounded in Kansas due to bad weather.
It had been a long tour and tensions had been running high. A first violin player was a wreck from excessive alcohol consumption, the trumpet section engaged in much infighting due to com...
A middle school band director named Joe is having trouble instructing his students to play their instruments.
One girl is being extremely difficult and cannot play the flute to save her life. Finally he walks over to her and hits her in the head with her flute, killing her. She dies instantly and he is sentenced to death by electrocution. The warden asks what he would like his last meal to be. Joe says "I'd...
Two great musicians hated each other
And after years of always being compared to one another, they finally decided to have a duet of guitars to see which was the better player. They carefully selected an audience of musical experts, and with that they played.
After a fifteen minutes duet, the vote was cast. Amazingly, the result...
An illustrious Count, Wictor Oblodowsky, agrees to conduct Beethoven's 9th Symphony in a Baltimore gym.
He's hesitant at first. He'd only been to America once before, and it was a favor for a friend. The oboist in his orchestra kindly loaned him the first season of The Wire, but the Count never watched it, as he'd never gotten around to buying a DVD player.
After an uneventful flight and some t...
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