P.D.Q. Bach in Houston: We Have a Problem! is a live performance celebrating 40 years of P. D. Q. Bach

P. D. Q. Bach

P. D. Q. Bach is a fictitious composer invented by musical satirist "Professor" Peter Schickele. In a gag that Schickele has developed over a five-decade-long career, he performs "discovered" works of this forgotten member of the Bach family...

. This performance features Professor Peter Schickele

Peter Schickele

Johann Peter Schickele is an American composer, musical educator, and parodist. He is best known for his comedy music albums featuring his music that he presents as music written by the fictional composer P. D. Q...

with Orchestra X conducted by Peter Jacoby. It includes never-before-recorded performances of "Trumpet Involuntary" movement of Iphigenia in Brooklyn, and also the rounds Odden und Enden (many of which have been previously unavailable on CD).

Performers

• Professor Peter Schickele, conductor, wine bottle, windbreaker, slide windbreaker, singist and musicological master
• Orchestra X, Peter Jacoby, conductor (on-screen credit: "semiconductor")
• Okay Chorale, Tom Jaber, chorusmaster (on-screen credit: "seasoned conductor")
• William Walters, Manager of the Stage
• Giff Nielsen, color commentator
• Michèle Eaton, singist
• David Düsing, singist
• Gerrod Pagenkopf, bargain counter tenor
• Jessica Smith, off-coloratura soprano
• Cybele Gouverneur, mezzanine-soprano
• John Weinel, tenor profundo
• Sam Handley, basso blotto
• Shih-Ting Huang, violin, captain of the orchestra
• Jaryn Philleo, oboe, double reeds
• Melanie Lancon, flute, slide whistle
• Marat Rakhmatullaev, bassoon, tromboon
• Cesar Martinez Bourguet, cello, discontinuo
• Larry Hernandez, trumpet
• Matt Menger, horn, shower hose in C alto
• Phil Moody, kazoo primo
• Brian Shircliffe, kazoo secundo
• John Welton, continuo accordiano
• Lillian Copeland, Ben Kamins, double reeds
• Patty Moeling, slide whistle
• Cheerleaders from the Spirit of Houston Cougar Band, themselves

Program

1. "Desecration of the House" Overture

2. Schleptet in E-flat major, S. 0

• Molto Larghissimo — Allegro Boffo
• Menuetto con Brio ma Senza Trio
• Adagio Saccharino
• Yehudi Menuetto
• Presto Hey Nonny Nonnio

3. Iphigenia in Brooklyn, S. 53,162

• I. Trumpet Involuntary
• II. Aria: "When Hyperion"
• III. Recitative: "And Lo!"
• IV. Ground: "Dying"
• V. Recitative: "And in a vision"
• VI. Aria: "Running"

4. "Unbegun" Symphony (Prof. Schickele)

• III. Minuet
• IV. Andante — Allegro

5. New Horizons in Music Appreciation

• Allegro con brio from Symphony No. 5 in C minor (Beethoven)

6. Fuga Meshuga from The Musical Sacrifice, S. 50% off

7. The Seasonings, S. 1½ tsp.

• Chorus: "Tarragon of virtue is full"
• Recitative: "And there were in the same country"
• Duet: "Bide thy thyme"
• Fugue
• Recitative: "Then asked he"
• Chorale: "By the leeks of Babylon"
• Recitative: "Then she gave in"
• Aria: "Open sesame seeds"
• Recitative: "So saying"
• Duet: "Summer is a cumin seed"
• Soloists and chorus: "To curry favor, favor curry"

DVD Bonus Selections

1. "Unbegun" Symphony with Theme Identifications

2. Odden und Enden

• The Mule
• Three-Step Crab Dinner
• O Serpent
• Johann Sebastian Bach (Prof. Schickele)
• Please, Kind Sir, from The Art of the Ground Round

3. KUHT interview with Peter Schickele

4. Bio of Peter Schickele, P.D.Q. Bach and Peter Jacoby

Source

• P.D.Q. Bach in Houston: We Have a Problem!