| Episode 1 - Introduction In which our characters find a new housemate. Episode 2 - How many composers does it take to carry a suitcase in the rain....? Strozzi moves in. With much Help. In the Rain. Mayhem ensues. Episode 3: A Little Head Cold Ives gets a cold. Episode 4: Door Number Three. What are the composers hiding in their basement? Episode 5: The Great Basement Debate The "Workless Bohemians" are conscripted into renovating the basement. But in what style? Episode 6: Ketchup and Lawn Gnomes Mussorgsky visits an exhibit. Liszt starts a protest movement. Bach demands cookout. Episode 7: "Would you care for a date? How about next Thursday!?" Liszt sets up Brahms on a date whereupon Mozart opens a betting pool. General disaster. Episode 8: "How it Actually Happened" Brahms doesn't want to talk about it. Episode 9: A Pale and Delicate Shade Wagner insists on choosing curtains for the basement. Mussorgsky discovers the women's club. Episode 10: An Astringent Effluvium Something stinks in the house. But what? Episode 11: Vexatious Vicissitudes (Wagner is the official spokesperson for the sitcom now, having named three episodes in a row) Mussorgsky gets the women's club drunk, just in time for the AA's arrival... Episode 12: Operatic Developments Will Mozart and Wagner ever catch Mahler to propose that he conduct their operas? Episode 13: Of Epic Proportions Bridge was never so dangerous. Episode 14: The Aftermath |
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| Dead classical composers - REVIVED and living in a house together. It's The Days of the Lives of the YOUNG and the STARVING- a harrowing drama (giocoso) starring some of the most neurotic artists since 1098! Sound improbable? Read on! |
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| "In the den, Beethoven and Brahms are playing checkers with rules they have created. Beethoven: no, no you can only move diagonally on turns that are multiples of 3! Brahms: every third turn I take is a multiple of three! Beethoven: NO, starting with my turn being number one! Brahms: we started counting at zero. (they glare at each other)..." |
| Disclaimer: For best results, read episodes in ORDER. TheAuthor attempts to keep this at a "Good Clean PG-13 rating." |
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| Episode 15: The Date Episode Everyone's going on a date this Tuesday. Including Hugo Wolf... Episode 16: "We're painting!" Mozart's old man decides to visit. Immediately. Episode 17: Oh for an Errant Turkish Cabbie! Mozart discovers incriminating letters of Wagner.. Episode 18: Millinery Difficulties Wagner will do anything to recover those letters. Even recruit the mafia. |
| Episode 19: Teambuilding Hildegard invites a teambuilding expert to help the housemates get along. Episode 20: Kiddie Affairs Don't ever let Mozart babysit your grandkids. Episode 21: Hildegard's Grand Schemes Hildegard plans her morality play. And just who IS the immortal beloved? Episode 22: The Yard Sale Beethoven needs to raise money. How can they screw up a yard sale? Episode 23: Dinner and a Morality Play Wagner finally recovers his letters. Strozzi and Mahler get into late night trouble. Episode 24: Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah... Robert Schumann cooks for Clara. Brahms spends lots of time at the food store. Episode 25: Tuesday Tales. Ives gets into an auto accident; Hildegard has an amusing morality play rehearsal |
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| Episode 26: Brunfelsia During a raucous Trivial Pursuit game, Hildegard's herbs get mixed up.. Episode 27: Unpleasant Aftertaste The guilty parties exhibit various coping mechanisms. Episode 28: Two Days Later Brahms needs a day job. Episode 29: When Hildegard's Away Mussorgsky and co. try to direct the morality play.. Episode 30: A New Nuisance Wagner and his patron Ludwig bring home a pet. Episode 31: MALL DAY! The housemates take the unwilling Beethoven to the mall for a makeover. Episode 32: Barbara Strozzi: Career Manager Episode 33: All is not well in morality land... Hildegard's patience for nonsense is even less than usual. Episode 34: Richard Wagner: Redecorating Revolutionary Wagner 'forgets' that he has three roommates before he begins redecorating. |
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| "Gesammtkunstwerk!" -- Wagner's parrot Papi |
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| A Composer Sitcom © 2008 |
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| Mussorgsky: Whats happening? (notes construction) oh jesus youre letting ludwig dothe plumbing!
Mozart: We certainly are! cut the pipe, add the new one, paste it up. It's hardly rocket science and it involves grunting, so obviously the man for the job is Ludwig. Beethoven: I have a hacksaw over here... |
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| From Episode 22... |
| Liszt falls out of the kissing booth during the yard sale. Liszt: WHOA! That's at least five dollars, ma'am! |
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