P.D.Q. Bach: The “What’s Your Sign?” Tour
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What’s your sign? Well, based on your
personality, I am quite sure it is one of the signs featured in P.D.Q.
Bach’s Twelve Quite Heavenly
Songs, a dangerously ambitious song-cycle based on the signs of the
zodiac, and the centerpiece of The “What’s Your Sign?” Tour.
And appropriately enough for a touring production, the program also
includes a piece written for an itinerant keyboarder accompanying a solo
plumber: the Allegro Gabinetto. Even two hundred
years after P.D.Q. Bach wrote the piece, plumbers still make house
calls, so Prof. Schickele will be playing a whole host of instruments
that sound as good in a concert hall as they do in a bathroom.
Prof. Schickele will also have a hand in playing an unusual musical
instrument in Swing Sweet, Low Chariot, this one being the rarely
heard but often avoided soprano proctophone. The show will be
rounded off by rounds, as well as songs, by both P.D.Q. Bach and Peter
Schickele.
For this program, the by-now-expected singers soprano
Michèle Eaton and tenor
David Düsing are joined
by keyboarder Margaret “Peggy” Kampmeier. To sign on
to the tour, go to the concert
schedule page to find out where and when the stars are in alignment for
The “What’s Your Sign” Tour. |
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Audio Sample
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Twelve Quite Heavenly Songs (excerpts) |
Listen to a sample of one of the pieces on the program, from a live
performance featuring featured performers Michèle Eaton, David Düsing,
and Prof. Schickele. This sample includes excerpts from
Capricorn, Virgo, Taurus, Cancer, and Libra, in that order.
Copyright © 2005 The Peter Schickele/P.D.Q.
Bach Web Site. All rights reserved. |
Audio Samples can be played using the free RealAudio
player.
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