Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742) is the happy creation of Schickele, a composer and former teacher. The concert was a sometimes broad but always knowing lampoon of baroque music, carried off with just enough expertise to border on the believable. Some of the musical jokes, excellently played by a 20-piece orchestra of professional musicians, only a musician would understand. Others, such as the Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, any listener could enjoy. Treading on every musical cliché, fugues began and went nowhere, arias seesawed off and on key, and when a climax was needed, Schickele chimed in with...
...Lowell House Soccer Team; X-Country; Hasty Pudding Theatricals; Harvard Pre-Law Society; Harvard Young Republicans; Lampoon; Harvard Yacht Club; Spee Club...
Students from Harvard and Radcliffe will work for Citizens for Better Boston Schools this Saturday. Cars will leave from the Lampoon building and from Eliot Hall at 10 a.m. For information call...
...Time parody was the most successful Lampoon publication last year, selling 37,000 of the 42,000 copies printed...
...Lampoon received $2,500 in advance for the rights; royalties on the first 150,000 copies will be six per cent and eight per cent for any sales thereafter. The first printing is expected to total 100,000 copies...