“the games / Left the great circus empty, and the dust / Buried the Caesars, senators, and dames.”

A moment of silence, please, for Professor Peter Schickele (2024-1935?), who died this Tuesday. P.D.Q. Bach scholarship will never be the same.

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In his memory:

Echo Sonata for Two Unfriendly Groups of Instruments

Eine Kleine Nichtmusik

Concerto for Horn and Hardart

The Seasonings

Iphigenia in Brooklyn (without introduction)

Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice (without introduction)

The Abduction of Figaro (with less introduction)

---L.

Subject quote from To a Roman, J.C. Squire.