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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...
...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...
Looking ahead to next week, the From Foundation will present its usual collection of first birthdays with 1974 compositions of by Donald Sur and Earl Kim of the Music Faculty. And without any birthdays to spice up their program, the talented Cantata Singers will perform works of Bach and Stravinsky on Wednesday...
...Cantata Singers and Ensemble, Phillip Kelsey conductor; choral works of Bach and Stravinsky; Sanders...
Dorian's Wrinkles. The work filched from the modern Phantom (William Finley) is a rock-cantata retelling of the Faust legend. In order to hear it properly performed, the Phantom, as well as his dream singer, must strike similar bargains with Swan, juicily played by Paul Williams, who also composed the film's good score. Swan in turn owes his power to an earlier Faustian deal of his own, a pact that borrows a few wrinkles from Dorian Gray's compact. This repetition reduces contemporary middlebrow mythomania to absurd shambles...