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Peter Schickele
Peter Schickele wasa composer and pianist, perhaps best known for his satirical alter-ego P.D.Q. Bach. In the early seasons of Sesame Street, Schickele scored several live action films produced by Mark Sadan and Kirk Smallwood, including three riddle films and "Where the Garbage Goes." A classically trained musician, Schickele attended Juilliard with Philip Glass. As P.D.Q. Bach, an obscure and questionably talented son of Johann Sebastian Bach, Schickele has created a complex history of continually unearthed "lost" recordings and compositions. Notable works include "Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion," "Classical Rap, S. 96th St," "Toot Suite," "Canine Cantata," and the operas The Stoned Guest and Oedipus Tex. He introduced his P.D.Q. Bach concerts as "Professor" Peter Schickele of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. Media Articles |
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P.D.Q. Bach - Peter Schickele : Madcap Madrigals A whimsical collection of original madrigals written by the maestro of classical mirth. Your ensemble will have as much fun singing them as the audience does listening. Songlist: My Bonnie Lass She Smelleth, Four Curmudgeonly Canons, The Queen to Me a Royal Pain Doth Give, O Little Town of Hackensack, Throw The Yule Log On, Uncle John, Good King Kong Looked Out, Two Hearts, Four Lips, Three Little Words 
P.D.Q. Bach - Peter Schickele : A Consort of Choral Christmas Carols Professor Peter Schickele is an American treasure who is been delighting audiences for almost half a century with his clever, humorous and very entertaining alter ego P.D.Q. Bach. Here are three of his finest songs for SSAA voices. Fun for singers and audiences alike! Songlist: Throw The Yule Log On, Uncle John, O Little Town of Hackensack, Good King Kong Looked Out
Peter Schickele : Go For Broke - A Comedy For Chorus Around the turn of the 17th century of small group of Italian noblemen and composers, seeking to re-create classic Greek tragedy as they understood it. invented the opera. A somewhat earlier, simpler, and less revolutionary form of musical storytelling was the madrigal opera or madrigal comedy developed by Vecchi and other composers. These works, which were not necessarily staged, consisted of a series of madrigals that told a comic story; unlike opera as we have come to know it, however, this was basically choral form, with vocal ensemble playing the part of a narrator as well as that of each individual character. Songlist: Prologue, Taxes, Charity, Kin, Company at the Bar, Finale |
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Peter Schickele's characteristic "twinkle in the eye"is present in all three of his Three Pirate Songs, for intermediate to advanced men's choir. Captain Fate is rousing, brisk, and whimsical in a lilting 6/8 meter.
Winter's Over, Spring Is Gone, Summer Has Passed, Autumn Is over Edited in a timely manner by Professor Peter Schickele
Performed By: The Seasons of a Malcontent
We are pleased to present a short, fun duet (or two-part choral) from Schickele, long featured on his personal programs. If You Will Try It was written for the 86th birthday of Schickele's mother. Dur.: 1'15"
This choral cantata is a setting of a number of jokes in different genres, including the one about the amorous porpoises, baby seagulls and staid lion.
Performed By: P. D. Q. Bach
Theodore Presser Company announces the release of its first P.D.Q. Bach octavo in about ten years, a hilarious and satirical ode to the King of France, who was beheaded during the French Revolution, complete with sound effects. The historical tie-in makes Long Live the King appropriate for high school choir in particular. The program notes have a fictitious story about how the composer found an old manuscript written by his departed uncle, with a note - "I have just composed a major choral work in honor of the recent revolution in France, called Long Live the King; the title, I hasten to assure you, is meant to be ironic - my sympathies are always with the people, especially the people who run taverns. The invention of the guillotine gives, I think you will agree, new meaning to the term "head of state." For intermediate choirs. Duration: 2'
Performed By: P. D. Q. Bach
Composer: Prof. Peter Schickele
Two Madrigals from The Triumths of Thusnelda. Edited with feeling by Professor Peter Schickele
Commissioned by the composer's college music instructor, William Reese, for his choir in Rockland County, New York, Schickele's setting of the first part of the Magnificat text. It was premiered in April of 1998 by the Rockland Camerata. As most of Schickele's choral works are secular, this is a rare and truly lovely contribution to the sacred choral library from a well-known composer. From Schickele's notes: "In the outer sections of the work the three musical entities (chorus, piano, and the strings) are given overlapping homophonic phrases much in the manner of Monteverdi's and the Gabrielis' antiphonal choir pieces in early 17th-century Venice, although, of course, the harmonic language is completely different. The middle sections feature lyrical vocal lines over repeated instrumental figures, leading to a climactic ending." String parts available on rental. Duration: 4'30"
One of the more ambitious works by P.D.Q. Bach, a dramatic oratorio loosely based on the story of Oedipus the King. Edited from a manuscript discovered at the Alamo in Texas.
Performed By: P. D. Q. Bach
Peter Schickele's characteristic "twinkle in the eye"is present in all three of his Three Pirate Songs, for intermediate to advanced men's choir.
Art of the Ground Round has three part voice and is arranged by Peter Schickele. A great choral piece!
Composer: P. D. Q. Bach
Two Madrigals from The Triumths of Thusnelda. Edited with feeling by Professor Peter Schickele
The Seasonings is, as far as is known, the only oratorio written by P.D.Q. Bach, and we must thank God for small favors. The oratorio was written during the last of the composer's three creative periods-Contrition-when he gave up many, though not all, of the extravagance of the Soused Period, and the characteristically incompetent characteristics of the Initial Plunge. The work was first published in Liverpool by Jonathan "Boozy" Hawkes, who has been of one P.D.Q.'s many drinking companions. Since the original manuscript has never been found, and since the first published edition was already in English, with no credit given for the liberetto, we can only speculate about the authorship of the text; or, of course, we can simply not think about it at all.
Performed By: P. D. Q. Bach
Certainly, the poetry of e. e. cummings has inspired many composers to set words to music, and Schickele answered the call in 1967. We present this important set of earlier Schickele chorals, which in cludes dominic has, dim /I(a, and the delightful maggie and milly and molly and may.
Arranger: e.e. cummings
Lovingly edited by Professor Peter Schickele
Peter Schickele's characteristic "twinkle in the eye"is present in all three of his Three Pirate Songs, for intermediate to advanced men's choir. We Have Crossed the Equator Again is an a cappella stunner, with lyrical, more expressive phrases, as well as full-bodied harmony and lilting 6/8 rhythms that are sure to rouse the nautical spirit.
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