Peter Schickele Presents an Evening with P. D. Q. Bach (1807–1742?)

Live album by P. D. Q. Bach

Released

1965

Label

Vanguard

P. D. Q. Bach chronology

Peter Schickele Presents an Evening with P. D. Q. Bach (1807–1742?)
(1965)

An Hysteric Return: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall
(1966)

Peter Schickele Presents an Evening with P. D. Q. Bach (1807–1742?) was the first concert and also the first release of the music of Peter Schickele under his comical pseudonym of P. D. Q. Bach by Vanguard Records. The Chamber Orchestra was conducted by Jorge Mester. The album consists of musical parodies with commentaries by the composer.

The recording was made at New York's The Town Hall at 8:30 P.M. on Saturday, April 24, 1965. Here, for the first time, the professor discussed his imagined studies of the life and "recently discovered" works of P. D. Q. Bach. Some of New York's finest musicians were on hand to give splendid performances, according to Howard Klein of The New York Times. Klein, realizing this was a one-time concert, hoped that a suitable foundation could be found to fund a nationwide tour.

Schickele made his first concert entrance by using a rope to slide down from the Town Hall balcony to the orchestra level and then taking the stage. Similar slapstick entrances became de rigueur at subsequent concerts.

The album was released as an LP in 1965 (Vanguard VMD 79195), and as a CD in 1987 (Vanguard VBD-79195). The 50th anniversary of this concert was commemorated at the same venue on December 28 and 29, 2015.^[1]

Performers and instruments

Professor Peter Schickele, Hardart, wine bottle and ocarina
John Ferrante, bargain counter tenor
Ralph Froelich, French horn
Leonid Hambro, harpsichord
Seymour Platt, trumpet mouthpiece
Maurice Eisenstadt, bagpipes
Robert Lewis, left-handed sewer flute
Stanley Buetens, lute
Stephen Lickman, double-reed slide music stand
Peter Zolotareff, balalaika

Selections

Concerto for Horn and Hardart, S.27

1. Allegro

2. Tema con variazione

3. Menuetto con panna e zucchero

Cantata: Iphigenia in Brooklyn, S.53162

1. Aria "As Hyperion across the flaming sky"

2. Recitative "And lo, she found herself within a market"

3. Ground "Dying, and yet in death alive"

4. Recitative "And in a vision, Iphigenia saw her brother, Orestes"

5. Aria "Running knows"

Quodlibet for Small Orchestra (by Peter Schickele)

1. Allegro

2. Adagio

3. Allegro

Sinfonia Concertante, S.98.6

1. Sehr unruhig mit Schmalz

2. Andante senza moto

3. Presto nicht schleppend

References

↑ "P. D. Q. Bach: The Golden Anniversary", program details

Klein, Howard (1965-04-26). "P. D. Q. Bach (1807–1742) Wins His Due at Last". The New York Times. p. 39.

P. D. Q. Bach

see also Peter Schickele

Albums	An Evening with P.D.Q. Bach (1965) An Hysteric Return (1966) Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air (1967) The Stoned Guest (1970) The Wurst of P. D. Q. Bach (1971) The Intimate P. D. Q. Bach (1974) Portrait of P. D. Q. Bach (1977) Black Forest Bluegrass (1979) Liebeslieder Polkas (1980) Music You Can't Get Out of Your Head (1982) A Little Nightmare Music (1983) 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults (1989) Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities (1990) WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio (1991) Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion (1992) Two Pianos Are Better Than One (1994) The Short-Tempered Clavier and other dysfunctional works for keyboard (1995) The Dreaded P. D. Q. Bach Collection (1996) The Ill-Conceived P. D. Q. Bach Anthology (1998) The Jekyll and Hyde Tour (2007)

Compositions	The Abduction of Figaro Concerto for Horn and Hardart Echo Sonata for Two Unfriendly Groups of Instruments Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons The Stoned Guest Suite No. 2 for Cello All By Its Lonesome

Videos / DVDs	The Abduction of Figaro (1984) P. D. Q. Bach in Houston: We Have a Problem! (2006)

Books	The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach, 1807 – 1742? (1976, by Prof. Peter Schickele)

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