CONCERT THE 'OTHER' BACH Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Conservatory Concert Hall Nov 15
That was the nom de plume of American composer and parodist Peter Schickele (1935-2024), the fictional Professor of Musical Pathology at the University of Southern North Dakota.
The persona of the errant Bach offspring was played by a bewigged Alan Bennett, head of voice studies, who in German-accented English introduced nine works of chamber and vocal music, a primer of his irreverent and anarchic sense of musical humour.
Unlike other great musical humorists, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Mozart or Dmitri Shostakovich, a little P.D.Q. goes a long, long way. More than 2 1/2 hours of slapstick schtick could drag and grate on the senses, but the full-house audience, with many children in attendance, lapped it all up.
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