[Leica] OT - PDQ Bach in Concert

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

Thanks for bringing up Professor Schickele - just listened to Two Pianos 
Are Better Than One and the Short Tempered Clavier - lovely stuff that 
lay long forgotten in the rack next to Copland's "Vitebsk" (an acquired 
taste and not often played). I never know whether to put PDQ in my 
section for American music or humour, though it's certainly not out of 
place next to  Gerard Hoffnung, Noel Coward, Flanders and Swann and the 
Bonzo Dog Doodah Band :-)
Douglas

Marc James Small wrote:
> At 09:42 PM 3/6/2007, Jeffery Smith wrote:
> >If you are a PDQ Bach fan, the new DVD out there (Houston, we have a
> >problem) is not his shtick with the props, but it is still pretty 
> good. No
> >exploding podiums, tromboon, or lasso d'amore. It is a shame that he 
> didn't
> >record his concerts back in his heyday.
>
> Jeffery
>
> Peter most certainly did make such recordings, and multiple CD's and 
> -- remember these? -- vinyl records were produced from his concerts.  
> I forget which one, but one of the cuts on one of his albums was from 
> a concert I attended.  I had thought that Schickele had quit doing PDQ 
> Bach concerts and am glad to find out that I am wrong:  for years, he 
> would only do a piece or two at his Christmas concerts in New York.
>
> His web-site is worthy of a visit:
>
> http://www.schickele.com/
>
> "And now for a picture of the building housing the Department of 
> Automotive Repair and Macro-Economics at the University of Southern 
> North Dakota at Hoople".  And, of course,
>
> RIP, PDQ Bach, that maven of Wein-am-Rhein, born in 1807 and dead in 
> 1742, thanks to the chicanery of the Bach family.
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>
>
>
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