[HN Gopher] The Rest Is Silliness: Peter Schickele and PDQ Bach ...
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The Rest Is Silliness: Peter Schickele and PDQ Bach remembered
Author : laurex
Score : 43 points
Date : 2024-01-27 02:02 UTC (1 days ago)
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| dang wrote:
| Recent and related:
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| _Peter Schickele, composer and gleeful sire of P.D.Q. Bach, dies
| at 88_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39037425 - Jan 2024
| (23 comments)
| ribs wrote:
| Ah, I hadn't heard he'd passed away. He was important to me
| growing up as a nerdy trombone player.
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| I remember attending one of his concerts, arriving a little late,
| and I stepped into the concert hall, walked a bit down the aisle
| to a seat, and less than a minute behind me the door opened again
| and another man - must have been PDQ, can't quite remember now -
| tore down the aisle, leap on stage, and played the final chord of
| the piece, a comic touch characteristic of his work.
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