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2006 live album by Peter Schickele
P.D.Q. Bach in Houston: We Have a Problem! is a live performance celebrating 40 years of
P. D. Q. Bach . This performance features Professor
Peter Schickele 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 “Bill” Walters, Manager of the Stage
Gifford 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 D
Jacob Sustaita, viola
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
"Desecration of the House" Overture
Schleptet in E♭ major , S. 0
Molto Larghissimo — Allegro Boffo
Menuetto con Brio ma Senza Trio
Adagio Saccharino
Yehudi Menuetto
Presto Hey Nonny Nonnio
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"
"Unbegun" Symphony (Prof. Schickele)
III. Minuet
IV. Andante — Allegro
New Horizons in Music Appreciation
Allegro con brio from Symphony No. 5 in C minor (Beethoven)
Fuga Meshuga from The Musical Sacrifice , S. 50% off
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
"Unbegun" Symphony with Theme Identifications
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
KUHT interview with Peter Schickele
Bio of Peter Schickele, P.D.Q. Bach and Peter Jacoby
Sources