Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air

Report from Hoople: P.D.Q. Bach on the Air
Studio album by P. D. Q. Bach
Released	1967
Genre	Classical Comedy
Length	49:51
Label	Vanguard Records
P. D. Q. Bach chronology
An Hysteric Return: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall (1966) Report from Hoople: P.D.Q. Bach on the Air (1967) The Stoned Guest (1970)

Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air was released on Vanguard Records in 1967. It is set up as a radio broadcast of the music of P. D. Q. Bach with Professor Peter Schickele as the DJ.

In addition to P. D. Q. Bach music, the record includes "New Horizons in Music Appreciation", a piece in which Schickele and Robert Dennis do a play-by-play on a performance of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as if it were a baseball game.

On the back cover, Schickele thanks "members of his graduate seminar in Accidental Originality" including future famous composer Philip Glass.

Performers

• Professor Peter Schickele, conductor, announcer, worm (an instrument)
• I Virtuosi di Hoople
• John Ferrante, bargain counter tenor
• Robert Dennis, announcer
• Heinrich Seifenblase, piano
• Emmanuel Pedal, four-handed organist

Radio Log

Bright and Early Show

Track 1 (8:12)

• 00:00 Signature theme (from Diverse Ayres on Sundrie Notions, S. 99 44/100)
• 00:16 Intro
• 01:34 Echo Sonata for Two Unfriendly Groups of Instruments, S. 99999999
• 04:52 Tag
• 05:00 Station break
• 05:18 Commercial: "Do You Suffer?" (from Diverse Ayres on Sundrie Notions, S. 99 44/100)

Track 2 (11:53)

• 08:10 New Horizons in Music Appreciation: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (Schickele, with Robert Dennis)
• 16:58 Time
• 17:23 Weather
• 18:17 News

Track 3 (5:04)

• 20:00 Intro
• 20:44 Traumarai for Unaccompanied Piano, S. 13
• 24:11 Station break
• 24:26 Tag
• 24:44 Signature theme

Dull and Late Show

Track 4 (9:27)

• 00:00 Signature theme
• 00:40 Intro
• 01:09 Schleptet in E♭ major, S. 0
  • Molto Larghissimo – Allegro Boffo
  • Menuetto con Brio ma senza Trio
  • Adagio Saccharino
  • Yehudi Menuetto
  • Presto Hey Nonny Nonnio
• 08:55 Tag
• 09:22 Station break

Track 5 (7:22)

• 09:26 What's My Melodic Line? (featuring works by Archangelo Spumoni, fictitious composer)
• 14:30 Time
• 15:03 News

Track 6 (7:53)

• 16:45 Intro
• 17:26 Fugue in C minor (Fuga Vulgaris from the Toot Suite for Calliope Four Hands, S. 212°)
• 20:11 Tag
• 20:42 Station break
• 20:46 What's Happening in Home Economics (Beethoven's Revenge, containing a small selection from the middle of the first movement of Symphony No. 3 "Eroica")
• 21:34 Commercial: "If You Have Never" (from Diverse Ayres on Sundrie Notions, S. 99 44/100)
• 22:40 Sign-off
• 23:34 Signature theme

Sources

• Report from Hoople: P.D.Q. Bach On The Air, schickele.com