An Hysteric Return: P. D. Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall

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An Hysteric Return: P. D. Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall
Live album by P. D. Q. Bach
Released	1966
Label	Vanguard

An Hysteric Return: P. D. Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall is live recording of a P. D. Q. Bach concert in Carnegie Hall and was released on Vanguard Records in 1966.

[edit] Performers

• Professor Peter Schickele, bicycle, windbreaker, tromboon
• The Royal P.D.Q. Bach Festival Orchestra, Jorge Mester, conductor
• Lorna Haywood, soprano
• Marlena Kleinman, alto
• John Ferrante, tenor
• William Woolf, bass
• The Okay Chorale, John Nelson, director
• Maurice Eisenstadt, bagpipes
• Robert Lewis, balloons

[edit] Track listing

1. Oratorio - "The Seasonings", S. 1 1/2 tsp. (P.D.Q. Bach)

• Chorus: "Tarragon of virtue is full"
• Recitative: "And there were in the same country"
• Duet: "Bide thy thyme"
• Fugue
• Recitative: "Then asked he"
• Chorale: "By the leeks of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept"
• Aria: "Open sesame seeds"
• Recitative: "So saying"
• Duet: "Summer is a cumin seed"
• Chorus with Soloists: "To curry favor, favor curry"

2. "Unbegun" Symphony, (Prof. Schickele)

• III. Minuet
• IV. Andante -- Allegro

3. Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, S. 66 (P.D.Q. Bach)

• Allegro moulto
• Romanze II (Adagio Sireno)
• Minaret and Trio
• Romanze I (Chi Largo)
• Presto Changio

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An Hysteric Return: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall

v • d • e P. D. Q. Bach see also Peter Schickele Albums An Evening with P.D.Q. Bach (1965) • An Hysteric Return (1966) • Report From Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach On The Air (1967) • The Stoned Guest (1970) • The Intimate P. D. Q. Bach (1974) • Portrait of P. D. Q. Bach (1977) • The Wurst of P. D. Q. Bach (1978) • Black Forest Bluegrass (1979) • Liebeslieder Polkas (1980) • Music You Can’t Get Out Of Your Head (1982) • A Little Nightmare Music (1983) • 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults (1989) • Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities (1990) • WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio (1991) • Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion (1992) • Two Pianos Are Better Than One (1994) • The Short-Tempered Clavier and other dysfunctional works for keyboard (1995) • The Dreaded P. D. Q. Bach Collection (1996) • The Ill-Conceived P. D. Q. Bach Anthology (1998) The Jekyll and Hyde Tour (2007) Videos/DVDs The Abduction of Figaro (1984) • P. D. Q. Bach in Houston: We Have a Problem! (2006) Books The Definitive Biography of P. D. Q. Bach, 1807 – 1742? (1976) by Prof. Peter Schickele