[NU Sports] PDQ - some more

[Scott Zeller]

My bonnie lass she smelleth, making the flowers jelleth

My bonnie lass she walketh like a doe, and talketh like a crow

My bonnie lass she looketh like a jewel, and soundeth like a mule

all done in Madrigal format!!

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 9:45 AM, <shawn.folkes at comcast.net> wrote:

> This brings back great memories for me too. One of my favorite PDQ
> recordings when i was a kid (I wish I could remember the name of the "piece"
> - maybe one of you folks can remember) pits the Orchestra against the
> conductor, complete with a radio "sportscaster" calling the action. My
> parents still have the record somewhere. And I, too, remember "My Bonnie
> Lass She Smelleth."
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> I never knew Professor Schickele's real name, but he always "unearthed" new
> works every year.
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> Fun stuff!
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> Shawn Folkes
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roy S. Lamberton" <rstetson at capps-assoc.com>
> To: "Ivars Embrekts" <ivars at radioskonto.lv>, "shawn folkes" <
> shawn.folkes at comcast.net>
> Cc: "Dennis W. Brandt" <tbng at comcast.net>, nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2009 10:33:06 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: RE: [NU Sports] NU Basketball
>
> To be fair to all the musicians involved:
>
> Jorge Mester and John Nelson are the "official" listed conductor of the
> Orchestra and Chorus on the Carnegie Hall concert.
>
> The Stoned Guest was conducted by John Nelson (assisted by Will Jordan and
> Bill Macy). He was leading the Hoople Heavy Opera Company.
>
> The composer of record was P.D.Q. Bach - the real composer is thankfully
> lost to the music world.
>
> The Carnegie Hall concert recording features a piece by Professor P.
> Schickele, "The Unbegun Symphony" a work in 2 movements III - Minuet and IV
> - Andante-Allegro. When you listen to it, you are always reminded of other
> great works in history, and as the Professor says, "Audiences go out
> whistling the tunes."
>
> Having grown up in New York, close to where Ivars did, I always tried to
> get in for the annual Farewell Concert, usually held about now - between
> Christmas and New Years. The best opening still is when the Gorilla chases
> the Professor down the main aisle at Avery Fisher hall, only to be "shot" by
> the stage manager so the show can go on.
>
> Some of Schickele's instrumentation may have influenced the Blue Man
> Group's use of plastic pipe altho he is not credited with the extension of
> some of the professor's instrumentation.
>
> He is quite a character.
>
> rsl
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Ivars Embrekts
> Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2009 9:19 AM
> To: shawn.folkes at comcast.net
> Cc: Dennis W. Brandt; nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] NU Basketball
>
> Actually the maestro's name really IS John Smith! In the recording I
> have he stumbles offstage just before the "great burlap curtain" arises.
>
> shawn.folkes at comcast.net wrote:
> > Professor Peter Schikele(sp?), correct?
> >
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dennis W. Brandt" <tbng at comcast.net>
> > To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> > Sent: Friday, December 25, 2009 11:19:19 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> > Subject: Re: [NU Sports] NU Basketball
> >
> >
> >> Because maestro John Smith isn't directing a PDQ Bach symphony at
> halftime.
> >>
> >
> > John Smith? C'mon! What's his real name? Happy Iphegenia in Brooklyn to
> you all!
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