"What's Your Sign?" Tour
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P.D.Q. Bach:  The “What’s Your Sign?” Tour

  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

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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