Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air
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.
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| Released | 1967 | |||
| Genre | Classical Comedy | |||
| Length | 49:51 | |||
| Label | Vanguard Records | |||
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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.
Radio Log
Bright and Early Show
Track 1 (8:12)
- 00:00 Signature Theme (from Diverse Ayres On Sundrie Notions, S. 99 44/100)
- 00:16 Intro
- 01:34 Echo Sonata for Two Unfriendly Groups of Instruments, S. 99999999
- 04:52 Tag
- 05:00 Station Break
- 05:18 Commercial: "Do You Suffer?" (from Diverse Ayres On Sundrie Notions, S. 99 44/100)
Track 2 (11:53)
- 08:10 New Horizons in Music Appreciation: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (Peter Schickele, 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, S. 13
- 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♭ Major, S. 0
- Molto 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? (featuring works by Archangelo Spumoni, fictitious composer)
- 14:30 Time
- 15:03 News
Track 6 (7:53)
- 16:45 Intro
- 17:26 Fugue in C Minor (Fuga Vulgaris from the Toot Suite for Calliope Four Hands, S. 212°)
- 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" (from Diverse Ayres On Sundrie Notions, S. 99 44/100)
- 22:40 Sign-off
- 23:34 Signature Theme