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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.
The summer of 1974 was 49 years ago — some of the highlights are events no longer around, others demonstrate that issues today are not much different than then.
Hailed for his 'wonderfully warm, pliant, spontaneous playing' by the Washington Post, award winning pianist David Korevaar will perform the Schumann Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 with the Takács Quartet at UC Boulder's Grusin Hall on Sunday, April 10 at 4pm and Monday, April 11 at 7:30pm MST.