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Tribute to composer Peter Schickele, his PDQ Bach persona, Fargo roots; and a Plains Folk essay. Travel tips from Alicia Underlee Nelson on the April 8 solar eclipse.
Claiming to be a musicologist, the composer and arranger performed premieres of "newly unearthed" works by the nonexistent Bach. Schickele died Jan. 16. Originally broadcast in 1985.
PDQ Bach’s oeuvre included the Short-Tempered Clavier, the Half-Nelson Mass and the ‘Canine Cantata’ Wachet Arf
Peter Schickele who has died aged 88, was better known as the fictional composer PDQ Bach, whose Victor Borge-style parodies delighted and entertained audiences; he was equally inventive with instruments, coming up with a trombone-bassoon combination known as the tromboon and the left-handed sewer flute.