Peter Schickele turns 80 today

[Borges]

Best known for works like...

The Abduction of Figaro
Canine Cantata: "Wachet Arf!" (S. K9),
Good King Kong Looked Out, the Trite Quintet (S. 6 of 1),
"O Little Town of Hackensack",
A Little Nightmare Music,
The cantata 'Iphigenia in Brooklyn',
The Art of The Ground Round (S. $1.19/lb.),
Blaues Grasse (The Bluegrass Cantata),
the dramatic oratorio Oedipus Tex, featuring the "O.K. Chorale".

[Slings and Arrows]

I saw one of the good professor’s concerts in college. Amazing.

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Not exactly modern but the Really Filthy Baroque Period had its merits.

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[elcid1970]

Lots of P.D.Q. Bach selections are on youtube now. Very recently added.

“Quodlibet” remains my favorite. The LP cover lists all the pirated originals used to create this Franken-piece.

;^)

[BigEdLB]

Flutes happen

[left that other site]

I’m not really filthy, but I am baroque.

[TEXOKIE]

He descended on a rope in the performance I saw too! He’s a total laugh riot. I think my favorite (it’s hard to choose) has to be the Beethoven 5th with a sport commentator speaking while the orchestra is performing!

[glock rocks]

Concerto for Horn and Hardart:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT6bxlnS1Is

[MinuteGal]

Actually, I can get a lot of classical music on line. But who can sit in a little computer/office cubicle listening to the music for any length of time without fanny fatigue or one's back going out!

Hausfrau duties take me elsewhere throughout the house during the mornings and afternoons, and I can't turn the volume high as I'm in a condo with neighbors on the other side of the wall.

You'd think my area of Florida could support one single classical FM station, but no soap.....gloom.

Leni

[Chode]

used to listen to Schickele Mix every week

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

A genius.

[Slings and Arrows]

Thanks!

[billorites]

R.I.P. Professor Peter Schickele.

[Borges]

Hard to imagine the music world without him.