P.D.Q. Bach (Peter Schickele) - "New horizons in music appreciation" (Beethoven)
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2008
- This new upload is something unusual but nonetheless interesting. The selection concerns a performance of the very familiar Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven ... as if it were a sporting event complete with a cheering audience, a referee and two commentators (Robert Dennis and Peter Schickele, the man behind the whole thing). Though the whole thing is outrageously funny, the joke only helps highlight the sheer power of Beethoven's masterwork and, at the same time, makes one think of the extreme value we attach to music. Enjoy :)!
P.S. This except appears on the album "P.D.Q. Bach on the Air" which features several other striking musical parodies.
RIP Professor Schickele. Thanks for all the fun.
A took me many years to realize what Peter Schickele is really doing: He' giving you a bar by bar description of what a listener of Beethoven's time would have found unusual and unexpected about Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. By listening carefully, you understand just how revolutionary this music really was.
All while being hysterically funny. It's brilliant.
Truly beautiful. Truly fantastic.
You should see the video that goes along with this.
@Lawrence M. Reisman, You are making all together too much of Schickele. He is just being funny. You are taking your "M." much too seriously.
@Mark LaPolla, There is no video. You are dreaming.
Love how it's described as the orchestra "playing against" the conductor.
The ever so tolerant Highly Gedankezahn.
@@fastidioussloth6013 I heard it as Heiliger Dankgesang (which Bing helpfully reminds me "is also the name of the third movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132")
@@jebbishop3 I see that translates as Holy Song of Thanksgiving. Highly illuminating, thank you.
"WAIT, he's...he's playing a CADENZA!!! HE MUST BE OUT OF HIS MIND...HE THINKS IT'S AN OBOE CONCERTO!!!"
I love this!
"It's tutti all the way!"
As a horn player I can tell you it was a spectacular flub - not only the wrong note but the wrong FINGERING as well!
That makes a hysterical moment even funnier!
His solo average is only 0.247355!
🤣🤣🤣 As a former horn player, I adore this comment.
"Those sound like final chords!" LOL!!
I STILL think that phrase when I get to the end of ANY classical recording I might be listening to.
I always say that to my boyfriend when we're listening to the end of a symphony.
"The string have got a hold of that theme and they are NOT GOING TO LET IT GO!"
Love this!
I first heard this about 42 years ago and I still think it's hilarious.
My boyfriend saw this guy in concert years ago, in Indianapolis. He says the guy was totally outrageous. Showed up an hour late, wearing orange tennis shoes with a tux, or most of one, climbed down a curtain from a balcony to get onto the stage, and proceeded to put on a great show. His recordings are amazing, and his show was killer. The world could use more of this kind of entertainment.
I agree. Wearing orange tennis shoes will always be amazing.
My dad was at that same show in Indianapolis, and his stories corroborate every detail of your boyfriend's report.
Ha! I saw him during college when I was in music school. He came running up the center aisle and took a flying leap for the stage, sliding on his belly.
I’ve listened to this over 500 times and it gets better every time.
Every time.
I wish I had had this back when I was a music major. This is the best lesson on the sonata allegro form I have ever heard. HILARIOUS!
"I don't know if it's slow or fast yet, it keeps stopping!"
This piece is going to go into overtime!
I was a singer in the late Pleistocene and thus sort of a musician. ("Musicians over here and others over there". Singers were "others") His Concerto for Bagpipes and Lute (I believe, it was thirty year ago) was alway my favorite. I believe the Lute is one of the softest instruments and bagpipes aren't.
The lutes started it off and about halfway through their piece the bagpipes started that warmup they have. Then t was so much for the lutes... Hilarious.
Thanks for the memories.
He says "WAIT A MINUTE" 9 times - kills me.
I love this! I use it every year with my music appreciation students to show them how Beethoven made changes to sonata form. It's brilliant because it's FUNNY but also because it does actually teach you a lot. The version on the DVD (Houston We Have a Problem) is also brilliant and adds some new humor to it.
Peter Schickele is probably one of the most brilliant musicians of the late 20th century
I have always counted Schickele as my best music professor. I'd listen and if I didn't nkow why people were laughing, I'd read up and find out. Excellent.
First time I heard this was in the spring of 1970 in the dressing room of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion before a rehearsal of the All Southern California High School Honor Orchestra. It was a life changing exerience.
My favorite: "And they WON'T LET IT GO!... Wait! I can't believe my ears. It sounds like another recap!."
Me in high school.
"well, Bob, i think this new theme comes from uuuh...eeh...uuuh...well, no I dont know, Bob."
"Outbursts of temperament"
Love it.
"The first conductor to earn the pennant since Toscanini... "
Vintage Peter Schikele, second only to my all-time favorite - Quadlibet for small orchestra... we used to play a game identifying all the "component parts" Loved his concerts, too - he used to come and play in Boston as (lighter) part of the concert series
Awesome. "He must be out of his mind! He thinks it's an oboe concerto!!!"
Decades ago I had to work on a Saturday and I heard this on the radio. It was one of my greatest comedy finds, and I have about 100 comedy LPs. "What's this?! I can't believe my ears!" Absolutely brilliant.
The 'flub' @ 02:22 really sets one's skin crawling. Oooooo!
OMG! This is GENIAL work! To look at a melody being played as if it was a ball at a soccer game being tossed around by the players! WOW! Perfect, perfect, perfect! I'm inspired!!!
I played this for my high school Music History students every year. They loved it and learned from it. Fantastic.
SHEER BRILLIANCE!!!
The premise is awesome enough, but if you know at least a little music theory, you'll get a LOT more of the humor!
I first heard this when I was in grade school back in the early 70's; I've loved it ever since!
The fact that it's just audio makes it MUCH better; you VISUALIZE what's going on while you're listening!
"is that a theme or a motif?"
Peter Schikele gave the commencement address at my graduation from New England Conservatory in 1999. To this day his has been the only graduation speech that hasn't lulled me into a coma.
Oh my lord, this is beautiful and is an appropriate solution to my life.
But it is from a P.D.Q. Bach album, 1967's Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air.
This is the very first piece of the Professor's work I ever heard. The local underground radio station in Philadelphia PA (WMMR) used to play it back in the late '60's. To get an idea of it's impact, imagine it sandwiched in-between Bob Dylan and Jefferson Airplane.
Thank you for your musical humor, Mr. Schickele. There will never be another like you. 😔
Okay, just try and listen to the "straight" version f Beethovens fifth without yelling "And they're off!!!"
Never mind that, try and _play_ it without breaking down into giggles.
I tried, and I can't do it.
"Nobody knows where the theme is!! The audience is running around, it's very exciting!!!"
With Schickele, the more the listener knows about music, the funnier he is! Wish I could get a NBA salary for my work! :-)
It can be difficult to understand what's going on in a piece of Classical music under any circumstances, but this just makes it pure fun.
For those who might find this funny, the conductor's name is a transliteration of German for "Holy Thank You"
That makes sense! Never studied German but I knew that phrase for Thank you as a kid... :-)
The name "PDQ" is also short for Pretty Damn Quick
It's also a reference to the name of the 3rd movement of Beethoven's 15th string quartet.
@@Avyncentia I second this. It's not "holy thank you" but a "holy song of thanksgiving", a "heiliger Dankgesang", which is the title Beethoven gave to the 3rd movement of quartet no.15, a "holy song of thanksgiving from a convalescent to the deity, in the Lydian mode".
I haven't heard so many "WAIT A MINUTE!"s since Jack Benny. 🤣
Wonderful comedy gold.
My junior high band teacher played this for us back in the early 90's. I think I may have been the only person in the class who thought it was hilarious.
Whenever I need a good, extended belly laugh I come back to this.
This is amazing - so funny!! My orchestra's going to play this. Can't wait.
Wonderful! Classic! And like the guys say, "Quite a symphony..." So nice to have some smart, clean, good-natured, affectionate humor on the 'net.
This remains...awesome.
"...up against the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony in the world 12 tone series next month." 8:06 lol
I love this! This is soooo funny!!! PDQ Bach is genius!
This is highbrow humor at it's finest. Something Monty Python should have done. Peter is a genius!
The Pythons did actually do something similar once, in which they “commentated“ a total solar eclipse in the style of a cricket match. 😆
See the Philosopher's Football Sketch, the one with the German philosophers taking on the philosophers of Ancient Greece.
Just as funny as when I heard it many years ago.
the conductor's name is from one of B's late string quartets (Heiliger Dankgesang)
I first heard this many years ago when I was a music student at McGill. We just about killed ourselves laughing!
I'll never be able to listen to the 5th symphony in the same way again...
I heard this in the early eighties ... I love it!
Lol @ the oboe cadenza- I wouldn't be surprised if Highwood wasn't on the roster next year.
Schickele is a genius...listen to all his works! "The seasonings" over all! or Pervertimento for Bycicle and Bagpipes!
Priceless!
I wish there was a video of this! I heard this on the radio this morning (WFMT) on my way to work. Found it cleverly amusing, but would love to have seen this.
+moraviangirl1 I first heard this in high school--in 1970, way before the days of videos.
There a video of a live performance of this. I prefer this recording.
I haven't hear this in decades :) Such brilliant lunacy.
And there's no doubt about who won this concert either.
It made my day! Genius!
Poor Bobby Corno!
GO, BOBBY CORNO!!!
this is sooooo good!
15 January 2024 May Dr. Peter Schickele, PDQ Bach’s most fervent and public scholar, performer, and promoter rest irreverently in musical mischief.
This is awesome!!!!
this is brilliant!
@sirpetethegreat I think it literally means 'Holy song of thanks'. It's a reference to the Op.132 String Quartet, the third movement of which is labelled "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart" (A Convalescent's Holy Song of Thanksgiving to the Divinity, in the Lydian Mode).
Indeed. And Python did so something like it, on their album 'Another Monty Python Record'. It's a sketch about a violinist trying to play a concerto, but his violin keeps collapsing etc. A hushed-voice commentator describes the events.
"The world twelve tone series next month"...
Great.
There actually is a town of Hoople, North Dakota. It only has 270 residents though, and its in Northern North Dakota. It even has a wikipedia page.
Amazing!
I simply could not stop laughing while listening to this!
Goodness. 2 viewers actually didn't like this. Amaaaaazing.
Loved the apple joke in the intro.
This is a classic.
I want to like this infinity times. Thanks to my older brother for making me grow up on this stuff.
that was awesome!!!!
We all feel Bobby Corno's pain.
Seriously, every horn player on earth has pulled a Corno and wanted to die.
Routine play for the second violinist, and.. OH NO! HE FLUBS IT AND THE BASSISTS ARE LOADED IN THE BOTTOM OF THE NINTH SYMPHONY!
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Schickele was a genius of parody.
New York Mills Philharmonic! Hahaha!
And I think we've reached the recap, Bob...
I love PDQ Bach/Peter Shickele (sp?) works, he is a genius.
PDQ Bach and Allan Sherman are my favorite comics.
and Tom Lehrer...
Look up Schickele on Johnny Carson, if you can find it - absolutely hilarious.
...and he's throwing in the brass...and it's tutti all the way... HA!
awesomeeeeeeeeeee
Masterpiece of educational comedy
His non-comedy music like the soundtrack of ‘Silent Running’ well worth a listen.
What's this? I can't believe my ears! It sounds as if it's another recap!
This is funny as hell. :-DD
Vale PDQ Bach 16th January 2024, you will be missed
This is SO funny!
This is hilarious! LOL
I love this skit🤣🤣🤣🎻🎻🎻
my music teacher made us listen to this in class today lol..bcuz it was a once in a while opportunity lol..it was so funny
"A little trouble with the violin there. They weren't watching."
i saw the st. louis symphony do this live on new years eve a few years ago. Pretty sure Joe buck was announcing.
Hail Phi! Hail Mu! Hail Alpha! Hail Yeah! Peter Schickele shall go down in history as one of PMA's most beloved brothers.
Some of the funniest stuff I've heard. I wonder how many hours I've "wasted" listening to this!
lol the violins aren't stopping
And it's tutti all the way, folks...WAIT!
we listened to this in music theory (: