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[RevCheesehead]

[kay1864]

1. PDQ rocks!!

Twice in my lifetime I've missed live performances by Prof. Schickele. Now he doesn't do PDQ anymore :cry:

At least I got to play in "Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion" in high school. (had the "Way Down Upon the Swannee River" solo)

Ah well, there's always the albums...

[RevCheesehead]

2. I had the good fortune of hearing the good Professor,

back in the early 80's, I think.

My favorite: Commentary to accompany Beethoven's 5th. "Wow! Did you hear that? Someone in that horn section really blew that note!" :rofl:

[kay1864]

7. "Yes, I think that was...

"Bobby Corno! He might be sold to another orchestra..."

Yep, nothing like a good French horn joke... :P

BOTH performances that I missed I found out about after the fact, and of course, I had no conflicts, and I COULD have gone. One of them I heard he slid down from the balcony on a rope for his entrance.

Schickele also composed a really nice soundtrack, for the movie "Silent Running".

[AllegroRondo]

10. He also contributed to Fantasia 2000

he arranged Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" marches

[hfojvt]

3. is that when you pick up a tape of JS Bach

in the 2.99 bin at a gas station?

[kwassa]

4. I always liked the "Unbegun Symphony"

where the composer was born too late to write the first movement.

was that P.D.Q.s own piece?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. I wish he'd write his 2nd Violin Concerto...

a medley of all the most infamous 2nd fiddle licks in orchestral and chamber literature... :D

[Burma Jones]

6. A Genius who died before his time......

From his Web page:


Although P.D.Q. Bach was born on April 1, 1742 and died on May 5, 1807, the dates on his first tombstone (before he was moved to an unmarked pauper’s grave) were inscribed “1807-1742” in a transparent attempt to make it appear that he could not have been the son of J.S., who died in 1750. Nice try, Bach family—close, but no cigar: some of us, or at least one of us, are not fooled, or at least, is not fooled.



http://www.schickele.com/pdqbio.htm

[kay1864]

8. His biography is a riot...

Spew-through-the-nose funny!

[AllegroRondo]

9. I've played many of his greats

The 1712 Overture
Grand Serenade...

Duet for Tuba and Bassoon. "You would think the tuba would totally drown out the bassoon, but it doesn't. We'll have to find something else."



He also wrote a wonderful Bassoon Sonata where the piano player doesnt show up until the very end. the bassoonist has to play the piano and bassoon at the same time. LOTS of fun.

[Aristus]

11. "Good King Kong looked down at his feet and he saw that they were large."

A classic. B-)

[RevCheesehead]

13. And, "Throw The Yule Log on Uncle John"

and my favorite, "O Little Town of Hackensack."

[sarge43]

14. Bach rocks

Iphigenia in Brooklyn

Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons

The Oedipus Tex Cantata

Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice: opera in one unnatural act

The Art of the Ground Round

[Fredda Weinberg]

12. He was a hoot at Carnegie Hall! eom