[NU Sports] PDQ - some more

[Dennis W. Brandt]

My boone lass would be nice.  Yea even at twice the price.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Zeller" <scottzel at gmail.com>
To: <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2009 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] PDQ - some more


> 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."
>>
>>
>> I never knew Professor Schickele's real name, but he always "unearthed" 
>> new
>> works every year.
>>
>>
>> Fun stuff!
>>
>>
>> Shawn Folkes
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- 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?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- 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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