Peter Schickele News

 
Almanac Weekly
Philippe Petit, Peter Schickele & Jane Bloodgood-Abrams to receive “The ASKar”
Almanac Weekly
... chess-player and motivational lecturer; Peter Schickele, the prolific composer, genre-crossing musician, author, radio host and satirist whose fictional creation PDQ Bach is a household name (and believed by some to be actual progeny of JS Bach); ...


 
Pops program plays on anniversary theme
Salisbury Post
PDQ Bach is a fictitious composer, the creation of musical satirist Peter Schickele. Expect the unexpected: balloons popping, duck calls and the strains of a Beatles song. The piece went over like gangbusters at the last regular concert of the symphony ...

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A classic performance: Salisbury Symphony delights audience
Salisbury Post
The “1712 Overture” by PDQ Bach (the alter ego of the master of musical mirth, Peter Schickele) takes musical plagiarism to hilarious heights, entwining Tchaikovsky with “Yankee Doodle” and “Pop Goes the Weasel” and throwing in schtick, and the popping ...


 
Nashville Scene
Nashville Ballet, Alias Chamber Ensemble and Watkins join forces for an ...
Nashville Scene
Christopher Stuart, a company dancer with Nashville Ballet, has created a dance set to Peter Schickele's American Dreams. Schickele is best known for his comic character PDQ Bach. There's nothing funny, however, about American Dreams, a straightforward ...
Nashville Ballet presents 'Emergence' - a collaboration of music, dance and artExaminer.com

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Skilled pianist, violinist find comedy in classical songbook
Chicago Sun-Times
Although comedy and classical music might seem like an oxymoron, celebrated humorists have fused the two, notably Victor Borge and “Professor” Peter Schickele, the tireless promoter of the music of the lost composer PDQ Bach. Igudesman & Joo, both 38, ...


 
Maurice Sendak, Art Market Economics, and Hate-watching on the Culture Gabfest
Slate Magazine
(Audiobook of the week: “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak and narrated by Peter Schickele.) In this week's Gabfest, our critics discuss the work of beloved children's author Maurice Sendak. Also, a conversation with Reuters' Felix Salmon ...


 
Arts Notes, Walnut Creek Journal and Lamorinda Sun
San Jose Mercury News
This concert will conclude with the lively Serenade For Three by Peter Schickele composed for clarinet, violin and piano. The second concert, on Friday, May 25, opens with a Poulenc sonata for violin and piano, followed by six songs for the tenor voice ...

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