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Peter is his middle name; his first is Johann!

He was born on 17 July 1935 to Elizabeth (source) and Rainer Schickele. Grandfather Rene Schickele (1883-1940) was a regarded Alsatian writer (source). He has a brother David (source), is married to poet Susan Sindall, and has two children Karla and Matthew (source).

The show opens with your local announcer:

Are you ready Peter?
[insert Peter's smart-alec response, followed by]
Here's the theme:

Opening Theme: Slow movement from Mozart's 24th symphony

Peter closes each show with:

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that certain je ne sais quoi.
You're looking good, see you next week.

Usual Closing Theme: Slow movement from Mozart's 24th symphony

Program Numbers and Titles:

1: Schickele Mix

Summary: Piano suites and octave leaps.

The music selected for this program will not be determined by brow height.

4: Surprise

Ready like Teddy

Summary: Music with surprising turns, e.g., volume, style, syncopation.

That arrangement of the Haydn Surprise Symphony by Donald Swan is my favorite thing off all the Hoffnung Festival records. I think I heard that thing in my senior year of college, and there's no doubt in my mind that it was a big influence on P.D.Q. Bach.

5: French Horns

6: Religious Music (Music for the Masses)

Ready and Waiting

Summary: Multicultural religious music (many but not all with western Christian influence) and secular inspirational music.

Composite Mass #1 suite

joke: A visitor is being shown around Hell by the devil...

There are a lot of singers in big cities who make their living singing in all sorts of different kinds of churches: synagogues, churchs of different denominations, and it has been said of these singers that they're pantheists; pantheists being people who believe in all gods whose churches hire singers.

7: A Cappella part I

Summary: A cappella music featuring one, two, and three voices from several times and cultures.

TIDBIT: Mozart Symphony

8: Songs without Words

The Is It Speaking or Is It Singing suite

The Stop Making Sense suite

	-- Now is the Month of Maying -- Kings Singers
	-- Ma na ma na -- David Pell Group
	-- Hawaiian War Chant -- Spike Jones

9: A Cappella part II

Impossible to be readier

Summary: An incredibly captivating program of multi-voice a cappella pieces from different cultures and genres.

Multi-line A Cappella suite I

Increasingly Incredible Vocal suite

TIDBIT: The Original Heebee Geebees

Get yourself up off your Heinrich Heine and go out and join a chorus; do it! Hallelujah; hallelujah! There is nothing like it...

Multi-line A Cappella suite II

10: Trio Sonatas

I am more than ready. I'm willing.

Summary: Evolution of the trio sonata and three part musical works.

TIDBITS -- 3 Little Maids from School (Ella, Dinah, Joan) / Serpent Trio

11: Speaking with Music

Summary: Speech over music, to dramatic and humorous effect.

12: Harp

Summary: Beautiful examples of harp pieces from several cultures and centuries, with a bonus suite of scale-based music.

Now I don't want to malign the French, but everybody knows that they're a decadent race. I mean, the French openly enjoy wine, and sex, and harp glissandos.

(Best when read slowly)
A Harpist must have lots of pluck,
A long silk gown,
And a truck.

13: Singing in the Cracks

Summary: Singing notes between the pitches on piano keys; both intentionally and not.

14: Patter Songs

Sort-of Patter Song cycle

Katy Cruel (Peggy Seeger) / Arithmetic (Ravel) / Die Winterreise (Schubert) / Hard Lovin' Loser (Richard Freener)

TIDBIT Right, said Fred, Bernard Cribbins

Molto Melismatic Song Cycle

Gregorian Chant / All I've gotta do (Beatles) / Hark (Purcell) / Kavali / Linda on my Mind (Twitty)

Russell Oberlin's influence on the first P.D.Q. Bach performance at Juilliard; the Bargain Counter Tenor wore a red wig to look more like Oberlin

Cloudburst (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)

Hey, you're looking good, see you next week

15: Lexicon of Musical Invective

Readier than you'll ever know

Summary: An episode of famous classical pieces with Peter reading scathing reviews by the composers' contemporary critics.

	-- Second Symphony -- Beethoven
	-- Love for 3 Oranges -- Prokofiev
	-- Rite of Spring -- Stravinsky
	-- Classical Symphony -- Prokofiev

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of bags of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer. John Ruskin, 1881

Slonimsky quotes Maxim Gorky, to whom American Jazz music was a capitalist perversion, describing a jazz concert: An idiotic little hammer knocks dryly; one, two, three, ten, twenty knocks. Then, like a clod of mud thrown into crystal-clear water, there is wild screaming, hissing, rattling, wailing, moaning, cackling. Bestial cries are heard: neighing horses, the squeal of a brass pig, crying jackasses, amorous quacks of a monstrous toad.... This excruciating medley of brutal sounds is subordinated to a barely perceptable rhythm. Listening to this screaming music for a minute or two, one conjures up an orchestra of madmen, sexual maniacs, led by a man-stallion beating time with an enormous phallus. Now I can imagine Charlie Mingus saying `Yeah, man, right on!'

Who wrote this fiendish Rite of Spring,
What right had he to write the thing,
Against our helpless ears to fling
Its crash, clash, cling, clang, bing, bang, bing?

And then to call it Rite of Spring,
The season when on joyous wing
The birds melodious carols sing
And harmony's in everything!

He who could write the Rite of Spring,
If I be right, by right should swing!

(Boston Herald, 1924)

Order the book now! The Lexicon of Musical Invective, by Nicolas Slonimsky, 1953. Available in paperback from U Washington Press for $14.95 (in the US you can order direct at 800 441 4115 and pay shipping, or ask your local bookstore to order it).

16: Songs about Animals

Does it snow in North Dakota?

	-- The Song of the Flea -- Moussorgsky
	-- Boris the Spider -- The Who
	-- The Alsatian and the Pekingese -- Flotsam and Jetsom
	-- Cottontail -- Lambert, Hendricks and Ross

17: Parallelism in Vocal Music

If I were any readier it would be unseemly

variation on the closer: You're looking awfully good, I will see you next week

18: Originals and non-traditional arrangements

You have no idea how ready I am

Summary: Famous classical works and their jazzy cousins.

El Amor Brujo by De Falla and Miles Davis

Pilgrim's Chorus by Tannhauser and Stan Kenton

The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky and Roto Rooter Good Time Christmas Band

19: Parallelism in Instrumental Music

They don't make 'em any readier

By far the most common interval for parallelambulation - nice word, huh? remember you heard it here first - these days is the third.

Thirds: Vivaldi, Les Misérables Brass Band, Debussy

Fourths: The Sheik of Palamazoo (Schickele): David Schickele on violin, George Tharelson on tom tom, Peter Schickele on clarinet

Various: Ravel, earliest keyboard music, Bartok

When it came to three notes moving parallelly - another etymological first - in other words parallel triads, you didn't hear them in root position.

Parallel First Inversion Triads Suite: Beethoven, Miles Davis, Virgil Thompson

20: Classical from popular music

Okay, just keep your pantaloons on, here's the theme

Summary: Popular pieces and their use in contemporary now-classical works, especially the Baroque Beatles Songbook.

	-- L'homme arme -- anon
	-- Missa L'homme arme Agnus Dei -- Dufay
	-- Baroque Beatles Songbook
	-- Welcome to the Jungle -- Guns and Roses

21: Putting Words to Classical Music

Who could be readier? Not me. Here's the theme...

Original lyrics by Sigmund Spaeth, Great Symphonies: How to Recognize and Remember Them, 1936, Garden City Publishing Co.

Preview of a ``forthcoming film'' on the life of Beethoven by Jeff Davidson and P.S. circa 1960 (sung to the tune of the Ninth Symphony): M is for her mercy reigning
O is for her Opus One,
T is for my toilet training, women's work is never done.
H is hate; sure, that's mother's nature, mother was every inch a Hun.
E is for her Earthly brethren
R completes this royal six.
Put them all together'n they spell Mother my progenitrix.
Ah, college. Two-bit sentiments and ten dollar words.

What's the matter with Rachmaninoff? -- Flotsam and Jetsam

Mozart's Fourth Horn Concerto (Rondo Allegro Vivace) -- Flanders and Swan

The Up a Third, Down a Third suite

22: Classical Rearrangements

23: Concerti Grossi

Hey, no problem! Here's the theme...

24: Parents

Who wants to know? Okay, here's the theme...

25: Birthdays

Ever ready, ever willing!

Hey! What's the point of having your own radio program if you can't indulge in a little nepotism, right?

Mother Elizabeth Schickele was born August 8, 1908.

	Snapshots from the Family Album
	-- Carla Barley -- David Schickele
	-- Luton d'... -- Peter Schickele
	-- 8/8/88 -- David Schickele
	-- Happy Birthday Beth -- Peter Schickele
	TIDBIT Valham: Gateway to the South -- Peter Sellers

26: Lullabies

Nag, nag, nag, Yes I am ready.

Summary: Lots of lullabies from western classical composers and American folk singers.

Winnie the Pooh review: And it was at this point, friends, that Constant Reader fwohed up.

When PDQ Bach started doing public concerts in 1965, I got together with Russell Oberlin but he was just starting a year off that turned out to be his retirement. I'm sorry that I never got to work with him, but on the other hand it led to my finding John Ferrante, another countertenor with a woderful robust sound, with whom I worked for a couple of decades and more. (John Ferrante sang the Don Octave character in P.D.Q. Bach's The Stoned Guest, and many more of P.D.Q.'s works for Bargain Counter Tenor)

27: Death

.......am! [garbled]

28: Basses are Loaded

Hey, if you're ready I'm ready

Summary: Illustrations of the bass line as the defining characteristic of western music.

	Canon on the ground
	-- Sumer is ecumen in -- anon
	-- Canon -- Pachelbel
	-- Nellie is Nice Girl -- PDQ Bach
	closer
	-- Sonata in E Major (II Allegro) -- Bach

29: Heaven

Ready is my middle name

Summary: Musical impressions of heaven

joke: Our greatest violinist dies, and when he reaches the Pearly Gates...

	Visions of Heaven
	-- Heaven -- Duke Ellington
	-- Hillbilly Heaven -- Tex Ritter
	-- Heaven -- Talking Heads
	Nutcracker Suite

30: Christmas Presence

31: What Happens Between the Notes (The "rest" of the story)

Ready is an understatement!

	Great Pauses in Western Music
	-- Surprise Symphony -- Schubert
	-- The Lady is a Tramp -- Gerry Mulligan
	-- Beethoven's Fifth (excerpt)
	-- He's Crazy Over Me -- the Judds
	Hooked on Pauses

Hello? ... Yes, I did say that every one of those pieces is (by the way, it's "is," not "are," you said "are"); not one of them is over 35 seconds long, and I suppose maybe the Digital Underground number might clock in at 37 seconds, but... What are you anyway, a librarian? Yeah, well, same difference. How did you get this number? He hung up. I don't know about organists.

32: Belly up to the Bar

You bet! C'mon in and take a load off!

33: A musical Aviary

Oh, of course I'm ready

Unique closer: That's M-I-X

34: The Bach of Gibralter

Ready is as ready does. Just a second...

35: And I Quote

As ready as a procrastinator has any right to be

36: Ma & Pa Kettle Drum

As ready as rain is right

Summary: Use of the tympani and tuned drums throughout the centuries.

The Brief but important Tympani solo suite: Everly Brothers, Jimmy Lunceford

Joke: Why do drummers have an IQ one more than horses?

37: The Big Chill Out

Hey, like, what's the hurry? Don't have a cow man

On Karl Heinz Stockhausen's Piano Piece Number 8: Music for men who are loved by women who love mathematicians who think they're musicians

38: About Bells

Ready is exactly what I am

39: The Devil to Pay

mmmmuuuuwahhh hahhhh... I'm always ready!

He Might just be the fellow sitting next to you now song cycle

Jack -- David Schickele

joke: So this guy ends up in Hell

Heartbreak Hotel -- Elvis Presley

Taking on the Devil - the devil wins in Europe, but not in the US

40: Varieties of Organic Experience

Anybody who says I'm not is a liar

Summary: Use of several types of organ in classical and folk genres.

Boy, organists are... well, they're a breed apart. Now I studied composition at Julliard with Vincent Persechetti, who is an organist as well as a composer, and he said to me once, ``You know Peter, organists and librarians don't sweat.'' There is something a bit alien about organists...

41: Growing Up Binary

Does the sun come up every morning?

Summary: Illustrations of the AABA form using Bach, Mozart, the Beatles and the Ink Spots

joke: Jazz Player who couldn't remember the bridge

42: Dominant Characteristics

I'm ready, you're ready

TIDBIT: Twist and Shout

43: Humor Me

I am the epitome of readiness

Viola jokes (and more)

Aren't there any violin jokes? Well I do know two. How many second violinists does it take to change a light bulb? The answer is none, they can't get up that high. The other I'll tell you when you get a little older.

Ina Suez sings two arias: Così Fan Tutte (Mozart) and Ill Barkio (Jones)

Analysis of the 1712 Overture

Musician's joke; Emmy, Pulitzer, etc

44: Leave the Meter Running

Ready describes my state exactly

45: There's a Composer in All of Us

I guess you could call it that.

46: Woe is Me

Have I ever let you down?

History teacher Phillip Wrongly

The Nobody knows the very specific kinds of trouble I've seen song cycle

college friend linguist David Robinson wrote a reverse Lithuanian dictionary; but no irrelevancy alarm this time?

47: You are (and you sing about) what you eat

If Helen Reddy sang, "I am Woman," Helen Woman would sing, "I am ready."

Summary: Songs about food, specific types of food, and eating.

48: Tracks of Blood

Readier than I'm ever likely to be again

Summary: Western classical and folk songs about blood, in a dark vein.

49: Imitation is the Sincerest Form

Affirmative

Summary: Canons in the music of several centuries

50: A Pair of Chords That Will Last

The day I'm not ready, there will be icicles in Satan's beard

Summary: Use of the tonic and dominant (I and V) chords as the foundation of centuries of Western music.

51: Splitting the Octave

What you don't know won't hurt you

52: The Fugal Gourmet

Just let me out of the gate

Sumer is ecumin in

53: Fugues: Can't Live with 'em, Can't Live without 'em

You bet your booties I am

Summary: Evolution of the fugue in the centuries after Bach.

54: Quodlibet (What Do You Please)

As ready as a guy has any right to be

Peter recalls the composition process of his piece from the first PDQ Bach album

55: Is there a Fugue in your Future?

Well, ready is a relative term, but ...

56: Varieties of Variation

Ready, willing, what more do you want?

	The Great Pretender -- Stan Freberg

That's one thing that Beethoven did a lot of, was big endings that are completely non-thematic. Don't have anything to do with anything, really, they're just a lot of bluster to make you realize what an important piece you've just heard.

The piece by Rick Applegate has a little sidebar.

57: Hold That Melody

Ready or not, here I am, and ...

58: Hold That Harmony

If I were any readier, I would be overeager

Inter-era Paganini Variations

TIDBIT: Variations on Yankee-Doodle

59: Bass-based Variations

Some things never change, and my readiness is one of them.

Summary: Music that repeats using the same or slightly changed bass line.

60: Weathering the Storm

I'm here, isn't that enough?

61: H2O, Above and Below

How can you even ask?

	The Hope For Springs is Eternal song cycle

62: True or Falsetto

That's exactly what I am

63: Pipes and All

About as ready as one man can be

64: Taking the Fifth

Um, yes, uh, yeah!

65: License or Larceny

You bet your sweet bippy

Tomorrow Never Comes - Beatles // 4am June: The sky was green - Peter Schickele

He's So Fine - Chiffons // My Sweet Lord - Beatles

66: Say It and Sing It

Well, let's take a chance

Summary: Songs that use both plain speech and sung melodies.

You might have to hypnotize me to find out my first name, but my second and third are Peter and Schickele

Peter recommends renting A Bucket of Blood by Roger Corman.

Excerpts from Peter's introductory poems to Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals

67: Instrumental Exotica

Refrain from bovine birthing, man...

Summary: Musical examples of several instruments: jaw's harp, saw, slide whistle, theramin, cowbells.

68: What *is* that instrument?

I thought you'd never ask

69: For He Heard the Loud Bassoon

I have seen the future, and it's here. And...

Summary: The singing stovepipe throughout the centuries in jazz, classical and other musics.

70: Au contraire, mon frère

Mais oui, mon ami

... I'm provided with this really charming studio space. You know, the walls are covered with art done by kids from all over the state. Yes, it's an art of the state studio all right ...

71: Back to Basics

Is a bluebird blue?

72: Hold that Note!

[spoken in a monotone] I am working on it - to hear the theme place press the pound sign; now ...

hurdy-gurdy

73: Mutes and Mutability

Ready is my middle name

Summary: Many uses of mutes in the twentieth century.

74: A Many Splendored String

You could say that.

Summary: Illustrations of violin techniques: mutes, plucking, bowing, and harmonics.

This episode introduces the new irrelevancy alarm with printout.

75: Schickele Mix: The Movie

Do I look ready? Nevertheless, here's the theme

Summary: Movie soundtrack music from throughout the century, including some that was eventually changed or never used.

Includes the I don't usually do this, but... suite (music by composers not generally associated with movies) and a bit of the history behind the music in 2001, Citizen Kane, and Silent Running.

76: Do I hear a waltz? Well, do I?

Waltzing Matilda... Oh, Yes...

Summary: An exploration of the distinguishing features of waltzes using classical and folk music.

77: Beyond the Blue Danube

That's easy for you to say

78: Let's get this thing over with

Can't wrap it up if you don't get it started

79: Great Endings I Have Known

I'm not just a ready teddy, I'm an eager beaver!

80: A Fargo Christmas

It's funny, I could get into this Santa Claus suit last year. Well, anyway, uh, ...

Summary: Songs about the winter season, tales of rural life in Fargo, North Dakota, and modern arrangements of Christmas carols.

81: Why are conductors paid (and so much, too)?

Do conductors own mirrors?

82: Words Fail Me

If you're ready, I'm ready

Summary: A show about Vocalese, singing pure syllables without words.

83: Clarinet Marmalade

I am one ready guy.

Summary: Peter discusses and illustrates the evolution of the clarinet, focusing on its tone and range.

Clarinet means ``little trumpet.''

Around the beginning of the 18th Century, a family of instrument makers in Nuremburg started experimenting with the idea of putting a single reed mouthpiece on the body of a recorder. This led to the Chalumeau, ... an instrument with severe technical limitations but a distinctive sound ... in a range corresponding to bottom of a modern clarinet's range (the lower range of the clarinet is still called the chalumeau range).

84: Clarinet Plus

I am readier than thou.

Summary: Pieces that feature the Clarinet in accompanied settings.

85: What it Takes Two To

Buh dump buh, dudu duh. Olé! Yeah, I'm ready

86: Pendulum in White Tie and Tails

Does a conductor perspire?

87: First Things First

Hey, it's one foot in front of the other

Summary: Composers, young and old (Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schickele)

Original recording of The Sheik of Palamazoo (Schickele)

August, 1953: Original recording of the very first P.D.Q. Bach work, the Sanka Cantata

Brother David wrote the liner notes for the first P.D.Q. Bach album, and defined the three creative periods of P.D.Q.'s life

88: Ah, Youth

You better believe it

89: Masculine / Feminine

No, I'm not. Why don't you do the show today? Heh, heh, just kidding.

Summary: Use of these terms in musical analysis, and readings from the work of feminist musicologist Susan McClary.

90: Cherchez la Femme

Just keep your knickers on

91: You Can't Pin That on Me!

I cannot tell a lie. Yes.

92: Climactic Conditions

I'm ready for takeoff.

93: Transitory Pleasures

Unlike Ethelred the unready, I am as ready as ready can be.

94: There's Nothing Between Us - We're Just Good Friends

Am I ready? I'm overripe.

95: Prodigious Talents

Have I ever not been?

Summary: Young singers and violinists.

Singers are often kidded about having more temperament than brains.

96: He Hasn't Been the Same Since

Uh, well, uhh, well, yeah! Uh, w-uhuh, uh, uh, hrmph, well, yeah!

Summary: The influence of western folk and Balinese Gamelan music on western classical composers.

97: Under the Influence

Guess what? I am

Summary: Some of Peter's music and the works that directly influenced those pieces

98: I've Got a Right to be Influenced by the Blues

[singing and snapping fingers] Blues, those Nashville Blues... oh yeah, I'm ready.

Summary: Influence of the blues' chord structure on multinational classical and pop music.

Composers say ``I've gotta sing to write the blues.''

In the tidbit, Peter Sellers sings the blues.

99: All that Jazz: The Early Years

I'm ready to roll

100: Good Enough for Jazz

Hey man, I'm hip, I'm hep, I'm ready to step.

101: Green Dolphin is a Two-way Street, but It has a Median Strip

Hey man, I'm readier than Eddie's brother Freddie

102: Things Fall Apart

Yes. The answer is Yes.

103: Background Information

As ready as I'm likely to be in my lifetime.

Blackbird (McCartney), Prelude #1 (Bach)

104: And How Would You Like That Prepared Sir? Harmonically, Please.

As James Joyce wrote in his now classic book Ulysses, "yes".

105: Boom, Chick and Beyond

Need you ask?

106: And How Would You Like That Prepared Sir? Rhythmically, Please.

I'm about as ready as they come.

107: Folk Music, Schmolk Music!

I'm the very definition of ready.

Summary: Different interpretations of several popular pieces of folk music.

108: The Whole Picture Includes the Frame

Have I ever not been ready?

109: If it's a Folk Song, It Isn't Stealing

If I were any readier, I'd have to take a downer.

110: Exoticism Begins at Home

Oh, oh, yeah, hold on. Just a second. Uh, here we go and...

Summary: Influence of "exotic" cultures' music (e.g., American Indian, Chinese) on traditional western music

Peter sings a Navajo Indian song that inspired part of his first string quartet.

So here's Pete's Law Number 3 (someday I'll get around to making up numbers 1 and 2): If you get two traditions close enough together, no amount of prejudice will keep them from eventually rubbing off on each other.

111: Leave the Playing to Us

I'm all wound up, and I'm ready

Summary: Self-playing musical machines that mimic human performers throughout the centuries.

112: Revenge of the Nerdy Instruments

Just wind me up and point me toward the console.

Summary: Self-playing musical machines that need not mimic human performers.

Peter is a member of the unofficial Beat the Devil fan club.

113: We Never Make Misteaks

Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I've got the wrong fader up, here. Okay, here we go.

114: If It's Worth Doing, It's Worth Doing Again

Yes, uh huh, that's right, I am. Yup.

Summary: The use of repetition in classical and folk music (the use of repetition in classical and folk music).

115: And Now For Something Not Really So Very Different at All

Yes I'm ready, or, to put it another, I am not unprepared.

116: Five Finger Exercises

Okay, let's do a countdown: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, wait a minute, I have to use the other hand; 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Summary: Melodies that employ five-note (pentatonic) scales in many cultures, including Tuvan throat singing.

117: Gin and Pentatonic

Unlike Ethelred the unready, and Ethelwill the unwilling, I am both ready and willing.

Summary: How composers accompany pentatonic melodies.

Oh, Yeah! ... I wonder where my old bong is?

118: Vox Omnia

What difference does it make?

Summary: Using the voice to musically imitate animals, instruments, and more (unfortunately without any scat solos by Jon Hendricks or arrangements by Take 6 or The Bobs).

119: I Sing the Body Eclectic

You better believe it.

Summary: Unusual techniques for making (mostly vocal) musical sounds with various parts of the body.

I need all the help I can get, because I am Mr. Low-Tech himself. To me, a Mac is a truck; and a web site is a glimpse of Sgt. Joe Friday.

120: The Ties That Bind

No rest for the weary

Summary: Uses of syncopation.

121: That Weird and Intoxicating Effect

They don't make 'em any readier

Summary: Evolution and use of ragtime music and its successors.

122: The Count is Three and Two

Two for the show, three to get ready, and ...

Summary: Uses of hemiola, breaking up same-length measures into two or three beats.

123: Keeping Christmas

Ho, Ho, Ho, am I ever ready.

Summary: New arrangements of Christmas songs and some exhortations to ``keep Christmas.''

124: Quintessential Music

Oh ye of little faith. Of course I'm ready.

Summary: Music in 5/4 time.

125: My, That's an Odd Meter!

Funny you should ask that - because I am.

Summary: Music in 7/8, 9/8, and 11/8 times.

126: Loud and Portable

Who wants to know?

Summary: Band music and instrumentation from across the world.

127: The Harmonie Ensemble: Life of the Party or Music Molester?

Readier they don't make 'em any.

Summary: History and examples of "harmonie ensembles", small groups of wind instruments that often play musak (arrangements of well-known works).

128: Sonic Boomerangs

Don't worry; I say, don't worry.

Summary: Works that mimic the sound of a natural echo.

First appearance of the Sloppy Thinking Alarm.

129: Opposition is True Friendship

Part of me says Yes, and the other part says No. But it's time, so...

Summary: Many types of antiphonal music, illustrating the call/response paradigm.

130: The Reverbing of America

I would be lying if I said I weren't.

131: First Among Equals

I'm surprised you even ask.

132: If You've Got It, Baby, Flaunt It

Have I ever not been ready?

Summary: Cadences.

133: SFX-1138

If it sounds ready, it is ready, whatever that means.

134: No Animals were Harmed in the Making of This Program

Does a rabbit have ears?

135: Clothes Encounters

The answer to that inquiry is, yes.

Summary: This show was tailor-made for songs about articles of clothing.

136: All or Nothing

Hold onto your hat.

Summary: More clothes harmony, this time about the wearing of hats and the wearing of nothing.

137: Marcia Exotica

I'm off and running.

138:

We are ready.

139:

Well, why wouldn't I be?

140: Bang the Drum Slowly

Better now than never.

Summary: Slow marches.

141: Marches Are Your Friends

Hey, no prob.

Summary: Marches that quote familiar pieces, or use unusual instruments.

142:

Let me put it this way. I'm ready.

143:

Is that a trick question?

144: When Mr. Wrong is Mr. Right (part I)

Do you want the right answer, or the true answer?

145: When Mr. Wrong is Mr. Right (part II)

I cannot tell a lie, so I won't answer that.

146: Mondo Glissando

God willin' and the creek don't rise.

157: The Gospel Accordion to Pete

What can I say, except...

Schickele Mix Fund Raisers

1: A Program about Programmatic Music

Okay, just a second... [sound of money being taken out of wallet]... here you go. Man I don't know about this. During listener support drive periods, I have to pay to get on the air. Doesn't seem fair. Oh well, anyway...

2: A Program which Toys with the Relationship between Music and Money

3: Old Wine in New Aluminum Cans

4: A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou

You can count on me

5: My Night at the Karaoke Bar

Well I was up pretty late last night, but ...

Summary: Singers without Karaoke (a cappella), with old Karaoke (early 20th century singists), and encouraging lyrics by Peter.

In 1980, I got a letter from the president of Swarthmore College, saying that they would like to confer an honorary degree on me, and would I be willing to accept that. ... I wrote back and I said Of Course I would be willing to accept it, it was a great honor, and I certainly thought it was a much better idea than working for it.

6: The Schickele Mix Home Delivery Service

How much is it worth to you? Heh, heh, just kidding.

7: You Heard Me!

How did I know you were going to say that? Yes, I'm ready...

8:

I've sent in my pledge and I'm ready to roll.

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