The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Page #4

the general we'd get that tank dump.

Oh, bad luck, sir.

- Is it vital?

- Vital?

Our whole desert campaign

depends upon it.

Oh, I see.

Put young Raleigh to bed, sir.

- What do you mean?

- I'll fly his mission.

You? You haven't closed your eyes

in three days.

I know, sir, but we only live once.

Or do we?

- Shall we have a go at it?

- Cheerio.

- Mitty looks a bit done in, fellows.

- Yes, he does.

Got the courage of a lion, though.

Never gives up.

He's a delightful fellow.

I studied music with him

at the Academy.

I shall never forget his impersonation

of old Professor Gruenwald.

- Do you remember?

- Rather.

Almost drove the old professor barmy.

- I wish he'd do it now.

- So do I.

Go ahead, Mitty.

I'd rather enjoy a laugh myself.

All right, sir.

Say, let me have your coat, old boy.

There you are!

He's doing it now.

All right! Everybody scatter away

to the chairs here!

Come on, everybody!

Everybody sit down.

Children, what makes music music?

Music! "Und" why?

When to the symphony you go

and they're playing fast but slow

Do you hear the pizzicato's sweet hello

when you go

Or the flugelhorns up high

Or the fiddles when they cry

No, und why

Because you don't go

You see, children.

A symphony is not only music.

It tells a story which has

a beginning, middle und an end.

Except of course,

the "Unfinished Symphony"...

which has a beginning...

We will now take up the instruments.

There is the trombone

Und the tuba

Und the oboe

Und the saxophone, sousaphone

zither and xylophone

Clarinet, bugle horn

fiddle and flugelhorn

Tenor kazoo and the timpani too

They are all very busy,

except the cymbal.

He stands in the corner

and looks around in disgust.

This brings us to Symphony Number 45.

Which was written by

the great Czechoslovakian composer...

Andre Griminick...

the Second.

This work was composed under

a slight disadvantage.

He had no talent.

The conductor lifts his baton,

und we start.

This is just mood music.

Now comes the first movement:

Presto vivace argumento molto...

cantabile molto chocolate molto.

Und we have the first theme which is

naturally played on the first fiddle.

This represents a young girl which is

living with her wicked guardian...

who is a French horn.

Now this young girl...

who is a beautiful girl...

und her wicked guardian...

live all alone on a farm.

And all she has for company

are a hen...

und a dog...

und a nanny goat.

At this point in the symphony,

along comes a handsome young trumpet.

Und when he clasps his eyes

on this young girl...

his heart goes...

This is Czechoslovakian for thumping.

Und he gets so excited

that he has a solo passage.

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