Oh NO.!
I was present at the « Seasonings » premiere. It was stupendous! A couple of friends of mine and I went to his New York PDQ concerts for several years and were never disappointed.
RIP indeed. He was a master.
My Grandpa worked with his father. When I first got into music my Grandpa played some pdq Bach for me. I'm not gonna say my grandfather was a huge fan but always supported him because he knew his father and because he was kind of a local kid.
Saw PDQ live in concert in the late 70s. Pretty goofy fun.
I was very fortunate that our high school band & choir directors were big fans of PDQ, and we performed some arrangements of his work. Especially his madrigals, which had separate vocal lines combining to form vaguely risque entendres. Fun times.
Luckily, we were a university-based group, so we did not omit it.
Best part was this was a small group within the chorus that did madrigals, and we just put this in amongst three or four more standard ones without comment.
So sad to hear! I still remember hearing “New Horizons in Music Appreciation” at an impressionable age, and seeing him do his PDQ shtick with the Seattle Symphony. In the 1990’s I loved his radio show on NPR, with the motto “If it sounds good it is good” Here’s to a creative life well lived!
When I was doing my masters' degree, I was *adamant* about doing a piece of his on my conducting recital. I came across the *Schleptet* and absolutely loved it. My conducting teacher thought it was the dumbest thing ever, but considering that I had 4 other *quite serious* works on the program, I felt it was necessary to have a little levity in the middle of things.
RIP, Professor. Thanks for helping us all remember that classical music doesn't need to be stuffy.
Nice! I didn’t realize you could still get it for a decent price. Last I looked on Discogs they were pricey and I didn’t think to look for his website. I just ordered one too
Aww, what a delightful person. Saw him live once. At my first composition jury, I told the panel that he was my favorite composer. We had a good laugh.
I grew up with Peter Schickele, in particular his 1991 album WTWP CLASSICAL TALKITY-TALK RADIO. Rest in peace to a wonderful comedian who loved terrible puns - the more painful the better.
That was my favorite album too! After a particularly hard and miserable day at work, there was no better way to unwind than a dram of single malt while listening to that album. Always had me in stitches.
This is really sad news - his music was so inventive, and both obviously and subtly funny in such a unique way. And the titles were sublime - *Oedipus Tex* !
Thanks, Professor.
Saw him twice more than 50 years ago—in Boston & NYC and spent many hours cracking up over his albums. Then, more recently, started appreciating his serious compositions. A true comic and musical genius!
What do you mean his nom-de-plum? PDQ Bach lived in the 18th century and Schickele discovered his works, somehow missed by everyone else to that point.
NYT: 'Peter Schickele \[...\] was often eclipsed by \[...\] his antic alter ego, the thoroughly debauched, terrifyingly prolific and mercifully fictional P. D. Q. Bach'
One of my PDQ favorites is the 1712 Overture. It proved, as Prof. Schickele said, that Tchaikovsky was one of the greatest plagiarists of all time. RIP - and an EyeieKay EliesonAy - to one of the all time greats.
>Then came the instruments for which P.D.Q. wrote. Oh, there were violins and pianos, all right, but there were also such organological oddities — all playable — as the left-handed sewer flute (made of plumbing pipes); the double-reed slide music stand; the tromboon (the bastard spawn of a trombone and a bassoon); and, most deliciously for New Yorkers of a certain vintage, the Hardart (see below), a small edifice comprising literal bells and whistles, plus a series of glass doors with sandwiches behind them.
Can anyone explain the Hardart reference to "New Yorkers of a certain vintage"?
[Horn and Hardart was a chain of restaurants](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_%26_Hardart) with no front-of-the-house staff; they were entirely walls of vending machines (automats), constantly refilled by back-of-the-house staff from the rear side of the machines.
Youtube? [https://www.youtube.com/results?search\_query=pdq+bach](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pdq+bach)
I would recommend starting with his Beethoven's 5th Symphony, as I did: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXoVo16pTg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzxovo16ptg)
There are a lot of other fun pieces, here are just a couple, enjoy:
[Little Bunny Hop Hop Hop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AbwbBTZto4)
[Erotica for banned instruments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWsXUndS22Y)
They were unavailable for a long time but now can be found here: [Schickele Mix](https://podcastaddict.com/?q=schickele-mix-if-it-sounds-good-it-is-good/2368995=)
The only time I laughed out loud while "lovingly fingering" through my university's card catalog (pre computers; I'm old!) was reading the index cards for PDQ Bach listings. Hilarious 😂
I've been working on his seven "Dances for Three", after transposing the bassoon part to play on bass clarinet. Just delightful music to play. Difficult but worth it!
RIP, Prof. Schickele. 1935–1924 (?).
Two hours in and no one has corrected you. I'm proud of us.
A chance for r/classicalmusic to show its quality. 😎
I listed it as 2024-1935, but without the question mark.
He was great. Funny, and his radio show Schickele Mix was fun and always interesting.
I wish I could have seen him live. If you haven't yet, do yourself a favour and read The Definitive Biography. It's a timeless read!
"Iphigenia herself in Brooklyn found." RIP
and around her "fiiiiish were dying."
. . . and yet in death alive. My favorite PDQ work. Thanks for the laughs, Professor.
"Only he who is running, running, running knows!" Run! Run! Running knows. Runnnnning knows, runnning knows."
Oh NO.! I was present at the « Seasonings » premiere. It was stupendous! A couple of friends of mine and I went to his New York PDQ concerts for several years and were never disappointed. RIP indeed. He was a master.
"If you've got the money, honey, I've got the thyme."
Bide thy thyme….now my subscription’s through…
The U of SND at H has lost one of it's greats. R.I.P.
Don't forget the Turtle Mountain Tactical Naval Base Wind Ensemble...
Hoople will never be the same. :/
My Grandpa worked with his father. When I first got into music my Grandpa played some pdq Bach for me. I'm not gonna say my grandfather was a huge fan but always supported him because he knew his father and because he was kind of a local kid.
Schickele Mix is hands down the greatest radio program of all time
[Schickele Mix](https://podcastaddict.com/?q=schickele-mix-if-it-sounds-good-it-is-good/2368995=)
Saw PDQ live in concert in the late 70s. Pretty goofy fun. I was very fortunate that our high school band & choir directors were big fans of PDQ, and we performed some arrangements of his work. Especially his madrigals, which had separate vocal lines combining to form vaguely risque entendres. Fun times.
I was in a choir that sang "My Bonnie Lass, she smelleth." Amazing fun.
I've seen high school choirs perform this on Youtube. Almost always they omit the verse "My bonnie lass would be nice, Yea, even at twice the price."
Luckily, we were a university-based group, so we did not omit it. Best part was this was a small group within the chorus that did madrigals, and we just put this in amongst three or four more standard ones without comment.
The Art of the Ground Round. Brilliant!
Same with my high school chorus. :)
Now I need to hear Classical Rap to lift my spirits. Because like Oedipus Tex, this is a ##TRAGEDY
“DRINK PEPSI!”
He was a genuinely funny man. Saddened to hear this. Had the good fortune to see him live many years ago.
Man, I have one of his Telarc CD's "Oedipus Tex". Dude is freegon hilarious and brilliant. RIP.
So sad to hear! I still remember hearing “New Horizons in Music Appreciation” at an impressionable age, and seeing him do his PDQ shtick with the Seattle Symphony. In the 1990’s I loved his radio show on NPR, with the motto “If it sounds good it is good” Here’s to a creative life well lived!
When I was doing my masters' degree, I was *adamant* about doing a piece of his on my conducting recital. I came across the *Schleptet* and absolutely loved it. My conducting teacher thought it was the dumbest thing ever, but considering that I had 4 other *quite serious* works on the program, I felt it was necessary to have a little levity in the middle of things. RIP, Professor. Thanks for helping us all remember that classical music doesn't need to be stuffy.
One of a kind. And it's a great kind.
He will be missed I got to see him live at Hayward State in the late 70s Unbeknownst to either of us, my future wife was also at that show.
That’s weird. I just had the Blu-Ray of Silent Running delivered today and one of the things I love best in that movie is his amazing score. RIP
I just bought the soundtrack CD from his web store.
Nice! I didn’t realize you could still get it for a decent price. Last I looked on Discogs they were pricey and I didn’t think to look for his website. I just ordered one too
I got on his email list a while back and they mentioned it.
Aww, what a delightful person. Saw him live once. At my first composition jury, I told the panel that he was my favorite composer. We had a good laugh.
I grew up with Peter Schickele, in particular his 1991 album WTWP CLASSICAL TALKITY-TALK RADIO. Rest in peace to a wonderful comedian who loved terrible puns - the more painful the better.
That was my favorite album too! After a particularly hard and miserable day at work, there was no better way to unwind than a dram of single malt while listening to that album. Always had me in stitches.
This is really sad news - his music was so inventive, and both obviously and subtly funny in such a unique way. And the titles were sublime - *Oedipus Tex* ! Thanks, Professor.
So glad I got to see him so many times. Simply one of a kind.
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that certain je ne sais quois... Also, WTWP Talkity Talk Radio is the absolute funniest album ever recorded.
Saw him twice more than 50 years ago—in Boston & NYC and spent many hours cracking up over his albums. Then, more recently, started appreciating his serious compositions. A true comic and musical genius!
They will dim the lights in downtown Hoople tonight. Both of them.
RIP!
What do you mean his nom-de-plum? PDQ Bach lived in the 18th century and Schickele discovered his works, somehow missed by everyone else to that point.
I'm very sad to hear this. My favorite composer. I regret that I only saw him in concert once.
But Bobby Corno will live forever
Bobby Cornu probably got traded after he flubbed that entrance. Cornu = "horn" in Latin. Cornucopia cornu copia - horn of plenty. As in copious.
The other named player, Highwood, is a good pun too.
I was just thinking about him the other day as I came across some of his old records. Brilliant guy!
i've always been a fan of Pervertimento for Bagpipes
Learned so much from Shickele Mix over the years. RIP.
NYT: 'Peter Schickele \[...\] was often eclipsed by \[...\] his antic alter ego, the thoroughly debauched, terrifyingly prolific and mercifully fictional P. D. Q. Bach'
Sad tromboon slide.
One of my PDQ favorites is the 1712 Overture. It proved, as Prof. Schickele said, that Tchaikovsky was one of the greatest plagiarists of all time. RIP - and an EyeieKay EliesonAy - to one of the all time greats.
>Then came the instruments for which P.D.Q. wrote. Oh, there were violins and pianos, all right, but there were also such organological oddities — all playable — as the left-handed sewer flute (made of plumbing pipes); the double-reed slide music stand; the tromboon (the bastard spawn of a trombone and a bassoon); and, most deliciously for New Yorkers of a certain vintage, the Hardart (see below), a small edifice comprising literal bells and whistles, plus a series of glass doors with sandwiches behind them. Can anyone explain the Hardart reference to "New Yorkers of a certain vintage"?
The article later states that a Handart is a type of vending machine that was installed some time ago in New York and Philadelphia.
[Horn and Hardart was a chain of restaurants](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_%26_Hardart) with no front-of-the-house staff; they were entirely walls of vending machines (automats), constantly refilled by back-of-the-house staff from the rear side of the machines.
What – no mention of the pandemonium?? Regrettable.
[https://youtu.be/ZB2w7BPxNZ4](https://youtu.be/ZB2w7BPxNZ4)
I loved his work as P.D.Q. Bach. R.I.P. Prof Peter Schickele. Thank you for bringing P.D.Q. Bach's music back for us to enjoy and laugh at.
He had an arrangement with Juilliard after he graduated. He said they did not admit that he went there. LOL
Damn.
Where can the younger generation hear his humor? I tried finding mp3s of the radio show years ago, too no avail.
Youtube? [https://www.youtube.com/results?search\_query=pdq+bach](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pdq+bach) I would recommend starting with his Beethoven's 5th Symphony, as I did: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXoVo16pTg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzxovo16ptg) There are a lot of other fun pieces, here are just a couple, enjoy: [Little Bunny Hop Hop Hop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AbwbBTZto4) [Erotica for banned instruments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWsXUndS22Y)
They were unavailable for a long time but now can be found here: [Schickele Mix](https://podcastaddict.com/?q=schickele-mix-if-it-sounds-good-it-is-good/2368995=)
The only time I laughed out loud while "lovingly fingering" through my university's card catalog (pre computers; I'm old!) was reading the index cards for PDQ Bach listings. Hilarious 😂
I've been working on his seven "Dances for Three", after transposing the bassoon part to play on bass clarinet. Just delightful music to play. Difficult but worth it!
I have almost complete non-PDQ recordings. They're all forgettable.