What started out as one single P.D.Q. Bach concert in 1965 has now become an annually-reoccurring spectacle whose history has stretched to over 40 years long and way off the edge of your screen. In order to provide for historians and follow musicolologists a plethora of background information, the New York P.D.Q. Bach Concerts Timeline has been created above. By scrolling along the timeline, you can see every P.D.Q. Bach concert that was (or will be shortly) presented in The City That Never Gets Any Respect, and for every one of these concerts, you can click on the date to get a full listing of the music that was played that year. Some of these informative concert listings are augmented with colorful promotional material including historical reproductions of the posters and flyers that warned New Yorkers of impending concerts and equally historical radio commercials that provided the same service to people who don’t read posters. Though these items are now useless for advertising purposes (I'm afraid you’ve already missed the chance to hear The Grossest Fugue), they are slightly less useless for research and amusement purposes.
Special thanks go to New York radio station WQXR and photographer Peter Schaaf for permission to include these authentic period radio commercials and posters.