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PETER SCHICKELE has been inflicting the music of P.D.Q. Bach on a beleaguered public for ten long years now, even since his first, fateful discovery of the manuscript version of the Sanka Cantata in a Leipzig brothel. P.D.Q., apparently no relation to the well-known J.S. Bach, an earlier baroque composer, plumbed unprecedented depths of mediocrity during his deservedly short lifetime. He has emerged only recently, thanks to Schickele's undoubtedly well-intentioned efforts, from the obscurity that kept him from the public eye for two happy centuries...
...Shockley affair, Schickele managed to obtain permission to present his latest discovery (commissioned by the Harvard Band) at Sanders Theater last weekend. The piece, which he edited--"tastefully," he claims--and retitled Serenoodle for Northerly winds and Percussion, was not originally composed for the concert band. According to Schickele, Bach's original scoring called for "an Awful Lot of wind and Percussion Instruments," a rare combination in the composer's day, but one which the Harvard Band is admirably suited...
...Serenoodle, true to form, testifies to the perverse taste of its composer, not to mention Schickele. Its sequences are interminable; its modulations not only unexpected, but wholly undesired. Schickele has spent ten years exhuming P.D.Q. Bach compositions with cruel regularity, and with a passion that might best be described as necrophiliac. Surely it is time for music loves everywhere to cry, "Enough...
Baseball Cantata. U.S. concertgoers may not yet realize what they could be in for. Tired of the usual fare of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Bartok? How about a 90-minute multimedia work based on the Krazy Kat cartoon strip? Roger Reynolds, 40, is creating such a work at the University of California at San Diego. A baseball cantata based on Casey at the Bat? Pulitizer Prizewinner William Schuman, 64, is warming that one up. There has been comparatively little pressure on composers to wave the flag or concentrate on Americana, though Leonard Bernstein is setting to music poems by eight...
...Works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and David Alpern, Leslie Amper, piano, Jennifer Congleton, viola, Richard MacDowell, Clarinet; Winthrop...