» EXPRESS: How did the idea for the festival come about? » SCHICKELE: Well, it was Leonard’s idea, actually. He’s got a great sense of humor, and for a well-known conductor, he’s unusually willing to ...

NOTE: Larry Murray reminisced with Professor Peter Schickele about the imaginary P.D.Q. Bach which you can read here. There is also a rare photo of the tromboon, part trombone, part bassoon which Bach ...

With apologies to the Terminator, Peter Schickele won’t be Bach. Not anymore, anyway. The name might not ring a bell – but it should at least play a kazoo or two. You see, Schickele was better known ...

Peter Schickele, whose comedic parodies of classical music overshadowed his own strengths as a serious composer, died Tuesday at his home in Bearsville, N.Y. at 88. His daughter confirmed the death ...

PITTSFIELD -- Peter Schickele brings his "P.D.Q. Bach Jekyll and Hyde Tour" to the Colonial Theatre Tuesday evening at 7:30. "P.D.Q. Bach and Peter Schickele: The Jekyll and Hyde Tour" is a two-faced ...

BIANCULLI: But Peter Schickele was best known for concocting, presenting and performing the works of P.D.Q. Bach, whom Schickele claimed was the youngest and oddest of Johann Sebastian Bach's 20-odd ...

At age 18, after listening to J.S. Bach's Coffee cantata, Peter Schickele wrote a goofball instant parody: the Sanka cantata. He attributed it to P.D.Q. Bach, "the last and least" of J.S. Bach's ...

Alfred University’s 2024 MostArts Festival will feature a performance by musician Dennis James of Addison, NY, renowned in the world of classical music for his presentations of the works of composer ...

Claiming to be a musicologist, the composer and arranger performed premieres of "newly unearthed" works by the nonexistent Bach. Schickele died... Remembering Peter Schickele, the satirical composer ...