P.D.Q. Bach (Peter Schickele) - "The Stoned Guest" - No. 1.

[jp0531801]

I wanna listen to some Steely Dan instead....

[LordRocksavage1]

How wonderful. Where can you go from the three B's of music? Brahms, Beethoven and Mozart? I really enjoyed this as a memory from my youth.

[gilgamess]

What does Schickele say at 8:12?

[dvdtrr]

@gilgamess I think he says, "open wider please."

[Timrath]

@gilgamess "Quiet, please"

[blizzardlizard07]

PDQ Bach is amazing!!

[Robotman42]

I'll just hide behind this--whatchamacallit

[ricecracker79]

ahahaha!!

"where I yam!"

[threadedinsanity]

My favorite part is the tuning of the orchestra, with the egregiously out of tune and monstrously loud foghorn-like noise :P (What instrument creates that sound? A trombone?)

[Scoth3]

It probably was a foghorn. Several PDQ Bach pieces use them.

[paladin313]

I think it is a bass trombone.

[limegut]

@paladin313 yes, definitely, I play many brass instruments, and the timbre is definitely bass bone

[Talk2ben]

I'm going to sing this for my senior recital in a few years =]]

[ethositachi]

I wholeheartedly approve.

No. 2 Aria is so so good

[afrisbeetom]

hey mom! i just liked OPERA!

[oneoperagirl]

This was absolutely amazing.

[worldviolist]

"Sprightly opening chords"... I loved that!

[hillevifan]

Doe you happen to have the p.d.q. bach compisition "Civilian Barber" i've always wanted to hear it

[LindoroRossini]

No, I actually don't :(, is it worth it :)?

[JeffreyBeanJr]

Thanks for uploading the clups. I'll be seeing Schickele next Saturday with the San Francisco Symphony. I think they'll be doing parts of the Civilian Barber, among other things. I've never heard it before.

[mjmacmtenor]

Thanks for this. I actually directed a staged version of excerpts for a "Directing for Musical Theatre" class I took years(!) ago. My favorite PDQ is the cantata for bargaincountertenor "Iphegenia in Brooklyn" (who knew she was in Brooklyn) with its recit & aria "only she who is running knows....running nose, running nose, running nose...."

[LindoroRossini]

"Iphegenia" is a real treasure, I personally prefer the central "lament" :)! Directing the present "opera" must have been a pleasure :)!

[coloraturafan]

As it begins I am thinking Lucia and then... no kidding, it is actually very cute.