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)
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)