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Today I was listening to "Black Forest Bluegrass" by P.D.Q. Bach (1979)
#music #listening #PDQBach

Album cover art for "Black Forest Bluegrass" by P.D.Q. Bach

@babyalligator oh, and #PDQBach - there’s nothing like satire and comedy to provide a unique twist on things,

Note: slight "#mature" theme here. I'm not applying a CW - when I was a kid, this would have caused a 12-year-old to titter, but kids these days have read and seen far more explicit stuff a thousand times.

So I wanted to post something that wasn't politics, that isn't news or topical. Something amusing, maybe, and something I've not posted before. I happened to be reminded of the novel Singularity Sky by Charles Stross yesterday, which has as #inspiration for part of it the #Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

That reminded me of a Fringe experience of mine. So here it is. It won't make you rich, or smarter, or wiser, but maybe will give you a laugh.

My partner and I went to a tiny Fringe festival in a small town some years ago. It was basically a whistle stop between two cities in western Canada; I have no idea why the touring Fringe would even stop there, but it did, at least some of it.

One of the performances we saw was a version of MacBeth. It was highly #abbreviated, sort of a cross between a Reader's Digest condensed version, and what you would get if P.D.Q. Bach had an English cousin who did Shakespeare.

1/3

#Fringe #FringeFestival #MacBeth #Shakespeare #PDQBach #titter #bawdy

@otheorange_tag @Dianora 😆😆😆

Any excuse to say “the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople” works for me! #PDQBach #BaroqueSun

P.D.Q. Bach - Oratorio: "The Seasonings" (S. ½ tsp.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MOAtq91idk

#music #classicalMusic #humor #PDQBach

An excellent find, buried in the back room off Readers' Cove Used Books & Gallery in Deming, N.M. I did not even know this book existed: a 1976 hardcover publication of a “definitive biography of PDQ Bach” by Peter Schickele. It includes illustrations, sheet music, and a combination of satirical musical scholarship with lots of puns and dad jokes.

#books #bookstores #bookstodon #pdqbach

The 1976 hardcover edition of “The definitive biography of PDQ Bach” by Peter Schickele. It shows a painting of a man in baroque attire and wig holding a leaf of sheet music.

@otheorange_tag @MatthewTitus88 Did you mean (the late 🥺) Peter Schickele? #SymSat #PDQBach

P.D.Q. Bach: 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults

This album remains a comedy favorite. The old band nerd in me still finds it brilliant. #PDQBach

Here's PDQ Bach versus Beethoven.

#PDQBach #Beethoven #PeterSchickele #comedy #classicalmusic #ConcertCasting

https://youtu.be/MzXoVo16pTg?si=xVxbJ3cg_3rulyoo

Watch "The Composer Who Never Existed" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/OwJ0qGRr79w?si=3XsU6fCmJgKwJMJP
#PDQBach

Already missing the great Peter Schickele, discoverer of the immortal #PDQBach.

https://chrisjansmann.com/p-d-q-bach/

Watch "[P.D.Q.Bach] The Short-Tempered Clavier (S 3.14159, easy as) (Score-Video)" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/baUHfb9EIzg?si=av5dBnpoXWCj5Gbk
#ClassicalMusic
#PDQBach

I will always remember the day I grabbed a random classical CD from the UMaine library to listen to while I was studying - and stumbled upon #PDQBach. The music will live on, an enduring tribute to the genius of Peter Schickele. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/arts/music/peter-schickele-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QU0.T3yB.33WuAhWkv9f7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

RIP #PeterSchickele. Another fond "when I was young" memory. My father sang with the Collegiate Chorale in NYC (now called "MasterVoices") and I attended their concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, etc. For several years in the 80s, they were the chorus at autumn #PDQBach performances, and those shows were the most fun intro to classical music any kid could ask for.

Tales from the jar side: Spring AI, Java String Templates, 1BRC, PDQ Bach, and the usual silly tweets and toots https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-spring-ai?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#java #springframework #springai #pdqbach

lol 😂 *polite applause* at the ending of the 1712 Overture 😂 #SymSat #PDQBach

P.D.Q. Bach is dood, 88 jaar geworden. Mijn eerste kennismaking met P.D.Q. Bach was zijn uitvoering van de Vijfde van Beethoven voorzien van voetbalcommentaar. Heerlijk. #PDQBach #PeterSchickele https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/arts/music/peter-schickele-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/arts/music/peter-schickele-dead.html

My introduction to #PDQBach was the Pevrimiento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons. It changed my life, and no one has yet managed to change it back. #RIP