Itzhak Perlman and Peter Schickele, Part 1
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- Опубліковано 19 бер 2009
- Itzhak Perlman and Peter Schickele mix it up in a hilarious duet at a Boston Pops Concert with John Williams conducting. Part 1 is mostly the setup, with Peter Schickele expounding on the life of P.D.Q. Bach, "the 21st of Johann Sebastian Bach's 20 children."
Part 2 is the real gem however that shows off Perlman's violin brilliance and perhaps a heretofore unexpected comedic genius.
We saw Professor Schickele twice at Boston Symphony Hall in the 1980s-90s. He made his entrance by descending by a knotted rope from the first balcony on to the stage. It was quite memorable--and a bit unsettling. The second time we saw him, he was "late" and made his entrance by running down the aisle and sliding across the stage in belly-flop fashion. The audience and orchestra were convulsed with laughter for several minutes. Professor Shickele was a comedic genius and an accomplished musician of the highest order! May he rest in peace, surrounded by music and God's laughter.
This performance was from (I believe) 1994.
What many don't know is that Schickele is (or could be, if he desired) a serious musician. He earned a Masters degree in composition from Juilliard in 1960.
Itzhak Perlman`s eyeroll when Peter Schickele says 'The dead 'c' scrolls' is hilarious!
Nobody who listened to Professor Schickele's radio show could have been at all surprised by that "dead C scrolls" bit.
This is the man who told us of novelist Emile Zola's ugly sister, nicknamed "Gorgon", for whom an ocarina-like instrument called the "gorgonzola" was named.
He explained the invention of the piccolo by having Italian peasants cook flutes in boiling oil at the seaside until they shrunk to half their original size, a custom known today as the "Mediterranean flute fry".
dadoctah, regarding the Gorgons,, notice the pun in the last line of this poem by Ogden Nash: rowrrbazzle.blogspot.com/2015/01/medusa-and-mot-juste-by-ogden-nash-once.html
Name a better crossover than endgame.
I did see Perlman last year, and he has a great sense of humor.
This was with the Boston Pops at Symphony. I was there and couldn’t stop laughing.
The look on Itzhak Perlman`s face was priceless when Schickele ran up to the front and upset the dishes on his table.
R.I.P. Peter Schickele
"the dead C-scrolls..." Man, I was on the floor with laughter!
#FeketeTenger
I STILL love this video, so much...
This guy is surely one of a kind; a national treasure...Thank You!...
Thank You for this Concert...Thank You Thank You #Itzhak Perlman!
#RheaPerlman's cousin?
5:55 - Hilarious. LOL. This guy's comedy is so good.
RIP PDQ. Humor is the greatest gift
Pure old time clean and funnnnny humor. Shaggy dog story told very well.....they were performers and they did their acts perfectly.
JUST TO GOOD
Wein am Rhein and Baden-Baden-Baden are really well hid jokes
Dead C scrolls! hahahah :D
fenderguitargirl - that was the groan heard round the world ...
Pure Gold! 😂
Love it!
If you notice at 6:16, it looks as if Perlman is in the background going "Why me?"
Check out the two humorless babes @ 6:08 just sitting there w/o cracking a hint of a smile. Bet they're fun to hang around with. Fun like a root canal! Sheesh!
Schickele's best joke is a rather lengthy one about a 'cello audition and "La Nozze di Figaro." Too long to relate here, so here's some short ones of his:
Q: Why is a viola recital like a murder investigation?
A: Everyone breathes a sigh of relief when the case is closed.
Q: What is the difference between a viola and a trampoline?
A: You can take your shoes off before jumping up and down on a trampoline.
Have you heard the one about the viola player who left their viola in the back seat of their car and forgot to lock the door? As soon as they realized, they ran back, but it was already too late: someone had left them a second viola.
OMG, has TwoSetViolin seen this?
This is great! 🙌🏽
Love Perlman at 6:16 going "why me?" lol
The dead-C scrolls, LOL
Love it!
I was expecting the G-string joke, myself. I'm pretty sure the Dead Sea Scrolls joke is also on the Wurst album, if I recall correctly. Quite fun, though!
so genuine. He is what he is and that stupendous. 💝💝💝💝
that was a cool experience
Happy Birthday, Peter.
This is brilliant. I love PDQ Bach.
priceless indeed !!! :D
hysterical! :)
i love this performance
💜
Oh my God this is so flippin' funny!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Itzhak Perlman used to talk a little bit like Tom Hanks
About that hangover. Does that mean that since half life is 140 years, do we get to live to be 280 years old? That's scary.
2:41 oh my god, Debussy is still alive on the left!
Hilarious!
Looong way to go towards the Dead C
Very symptic ❣️😂🌹🎻Thank you Maestro Ithzak Perlman
Wondering if he is related to #Rhea
0:28 in the red tie... it can't be....
What year was this done?
This was about a year after Schindler's List came out, so around 1994. It was on PBS.
Is that Lora Park at 5:17?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Is that Werner Klemperer in the audience @ 1:45?
"Middle C is sort of the center of our musical range" Perlman: *fingers a middle C* lmao
Face palm!
Any relation to Rhea Perlmam
6:10. jimmy Page from led zeppelin.
Jimmy Page in the audience @ 6:10?
Why does the conductor look like John Williams?
Because it is.
Schleptet for the Common Coronavirus, the Covid19; Covid 1819 😂
pathological...
No such luck. They reran most of the series about four times before taking it off the air altogether. You can't get recordings of it because of the rights to all the individual things he played.
Actually it's possible to have a violin part that never ventures down to middle C or below, though I imagine most solo violin parts do use the bottom half-octave. Flutes almost never play that low, and soprano and alto recorders are incapable of reaching middle C!
Rofl!
Cooooorny!
Si hay alguien en el mundo que no tiene gracia, es Itzhak Perlman
Schleptet!
Peter Dillydally Quagmire couldn't have seen it, but did you?! Arguably, Itzhak Perlman's shortest, most idiosyncratic and most forgettable performance. 5:04 Blink, and you cat-gut it.
You've managed to destroy the audio. Why? Do you think that somehow makes it legal?
Destroy? Isn't that something of an overstatement? The audio is a product of my limited technology. I certainly didn't degrade it on purpose!
It's not really that funny for someone who won 4 consecutive Grammy awards for best comedy album sandwiched between George Carlin and Robin Williams. How was he considered so funny 4 years in a row and nothing online that can account for it?
That's because you don't have a single musical cell in your entire body!!