Awwwww: composer Peter Schickele, better known to the general public as his alter-ego P.D.Q. Bach, has died at 88.
- The New York Times honors him with an appropriately hilarious obituary by Margalit Fox.
- The Washington Post has a more sober obit by Allan Kozinn.
- Joshua Kosman remembers Schickele in the SF Chronicle. I'm mildly surprised that he didn't mention Mozart's "A Musical Joke", K. 522, as an example of a work that depends on knowing how a classical era work should go.
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Off the topic but Opera Magazine reports the Handmaid's Tale is coming to SFO this fall directed by John Fulljames.
Yep. Caught that in my last Speculation post!
I guess I'd looked a the Speculation post before you updated it. I just received my Opera Magazine yesterday.
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