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PDQ Bach Speaks (Peter Schickele)

• 1996 ----- color ----- 29 min ----- vhs
• (Upon Reflection series) Host Marcia Alvar speaks with Professor Peter Schickele, Professor of Music at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople, and composer. Professor Schickele, one of the great satirists of the 20th Century, best known as the perpetrator, er, discoverer of the oeuvre of that most classic of all composers, PDQ Bach. Although unknown before Professor Schickele's work of musical anthropology, J. S. Bach's last son, PDQ is now famous for such works as the 1712 Overture; Oedipus Tex; Bob and Ted and Carol and Alice, an Opera in One Un-Natural Act, and, of course, his masterpiece, The Abduction of Figaro, a Simply Grande Opera in Three Acts with Soloists, Chorus and Corpse de Ballet. Professor Schickele has also found time to compose over 100 works for almost every size and type of classical ensemble. He has created music for four feature films as well as for documentaries and television commercials.
• Topics: (Biography, Music)

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