P.D.Q. Bach - Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Sportscast
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2021
- P.D.Q. Bach - Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Sportscast (New Horizons in Music Appreciation)
Professor Peter Schickele, announcer
Robert Dennis, color commentator
The New York Mills Philharmonic
Heiliger Dankgesang, conductor
Being the center of P. D. Q. Bach studies in the United States indeed, in the world is not the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople's only claim to fame. History was made by this writer when U. of S.N.D. at H's radio station broadcast this presentation of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (the "Famous") in a program that boldly opened up dramatic new vistas in the volatile, dynamic, ever-changing field of high school Music Appreciation.
Huge amounts of time and money have been spent on this area of human endeavor, both for young people and adults, since everybody knows that you can't really be enjoying something unless you can tell why you're enjoying it. But the effectiveness of reading or hearing a lengthy explanation of what's happening in a piece of music is vitiated by your usually forgetting most of what you have read or heard by the time you get around to hearing the music about which you were reading or hearing. It occurred to this writer that a feather might be taken from the cap of sporting events, or rather the broadcasting of sporting events, whose distant audiences are never asked to rely on their memories for more than a few seconds at a time to stem the encroaching tide of ignorance that threatens to engulf our concert halls. In short, tell it like it is while it is. That this approach is indeed effective is anested to by many teachers, who tell me that they use this presentation of the Fifth as an introduction to Beethoven or to the symphony or to sonata form or to phonograph records.
Although not a work by P.D.Q. Bach or even in any way relevant to his oeuvre, we take great pride in presenting this landmark in the history of pedagogical desperation.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own the rights to this music/song. All rights belong to the owner. No Copyright Infringement Intended.
RIP, Peter Schickele and P.D.Q. Bach. Musical and comic genius. You will be greatly missed.
Thank you for your humor, your music, and your joy. We'll certainly miss you, Pete. 😔❤️
This is ✨sensational✨
“What a beautiful day for a concert, not a cloud in the ceiling!”
**logic**🤌
Apparently they weren't at the Civic Theatre in Akron, Ohio
Just listened to it yet again. How I love this!!
PDQ, RIP. Thank you for bringing so much fun to music, and both fun and music to so many fans. Salieri should have stolen a Requiem from you.
Discovered P.D.Q. Bach 8 years ago and wish, wish, WISH there was even more of him and the music. Thank you for the sheer delight and joy. Cheers from England.
This is one of my all-time favorite Peter Schickele creations. I saw it live in concert and it was even funnier.
I had the enormous pleasure of meeting Peter Schickele and having him conduct me and a few friends in his Schleptet in E♭ Major back in the 1970s. He's a really lovely man.
"3rd major flub he's made this season...think there's a chance he might be sold off to another orchestra?"
Eh, it’s hard to say…
One of my very favourite lines, especially as I'm a former horn player.
Not a horn player now?
I thought that once a horn player, always a horn player.
Me? I played horn at school in the late 1960s and early 70s. I then purchased my own very basic horn which i played occassionally unti my depression robbed me of my enjoyment of anything. I gave away my horn (about 5 years ago) because there was no point having it sitting around the house gathering dust.
Thank you!
R.I.P.
Wow
What's the "Schickele number"? I've heard that it's "25 to 34 cm".
This isn’t a P.D.Q Bach composition, so no need for S. Numbers
25 to 34? That's huge!