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Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air

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Released
  
1967

Artist
  
P.D.Q. Bach

Label
  
Vanguard Records

Length
  
49:51

Release date
  
1967

Genres
  
Classical music, Comedy

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Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air was released on Vanguard Records in 1967. It is set up as a radio broadcast of the music of P. D. Q. Bach with Professor Peter Schickele as the DJ.

Contents

In addition to P. D. Q. Bach music, the record includes New Horizons in Music Appreciation, a piece in which Schickele and Robert Dennis do a play-by-play on a performance of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as if it were a football game.

On the back cover, Schickele thanks "members of his graduate seminar in Accidental Originality" including future famous composer Philip Glass.

Performers

  • Professor Peter Schickele, conductor, announcer, worm (that's an instrument)
  • I Virtuosi di Hoople
  • John Ferrante, bargain counter tenor
  • Robert Dennis, announcer

    • From the CD jacket

    P.D.Q. BACH ON THE AIR
    From Radio Station WOOF at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople, PROFESSOR PETER SCHICKELE brings you the chamber music of P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742)? with John Ferrante, countertenor and I VIRTUOSI DI HOOPLE (Peter Schickele, conductor) on this week's installment of REPORT FROM HOOPLE.

    Bright and Early Show

    Track 1 (8:12)

  • 00:00 Signature Theme (from Divers Ayres On Sundrie Notions)
  • 00:16 Intro
  • 01:34 Echo Sonata for Two Unfriendly Groups of Instruments
  • 04:52 Tag
  • 05:00 Station Break
  • 05:18 Commercial: "Do You Suffer?"

    • Track 2 (11:53)

  • 08:10 New Horizons in Music Appreciation: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (with Robert Dennis)
  • 16:58 Time
  • 17:23 Weather
  • 18:17 News

    • Track 3 (5:04)

  • 20:00 Intro
  • 20:44 Traumarai for Unaccompanied Piano
  • 24:11 Station Break
  • 24:26 Tag
  • 24:44 Signature Theme

    • Dull and Late Show

    Track 4 (9:27)

  • 00:00 Signature Theme
  • 00:40 Intro
  • 01:09 Schleptet in E flat Major
  • Larghissimo - Allegro Boffo
  • Menuetto con Brio ma senza Trio
  • Adagio Saccarino
  • Yehudi Menuetto
  • Presto Hey Nonny Nonnio
  • 08:55 Tag
  • 09:22 Station Break

    • Track 5 (7:22)

  • 09:26 What's My Melodic Line?
  • 14:30 Time
  • 15:03 News

    • Track 6 (7:53)

  • 16:45 Intro
  • 17:26 Fugue in C Minor (from the Toot Suite for calliope, four hands)
  • 20:11 Tag
  • 20:42 Station Break
  • 20:46 What's Happening in Home Economics (Beethoven's Revenge, containing a small selection from the middle of the first movement of Symphony No. 3 "Eroica")
  • 21:34 Commercial: "If You Have Never"
  • 22:40 Sign-off
  • 23:34 Signature Theme

    • References

    Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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