PDQ Bach is just great stuff.   I don't think New Horizons in Music Appreciation (Beethoven's 5th, first movement, broadcast as a baseball game) has ever been bettered in the field of musical humor.   That whole album, PDQ Bach on the Air, is just spectacular--skewering everything from Baroque music to sports broadcasters, to call-in shows. And the more you know about music, the more you appreciate PDQ Bach.


I was lucky enough to be able to play 2nd kazoo in a live performance of a PDQ Bach concert, with the Maestro conducting.    But the first kazoo got all the glory. Curses, foiled again.

Peter Schickele asked us what we normally wear for a concert.    We said tuxedos. But for this concert we wore bathrobes.