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.
Off the topic but Opera Magazine reports the Handmaid's Tale is coming to SFO this fall directed by John Fulljames.
ReplyDeleteYep. Caught that in my last Speculation post!
ReplyDeleteI guess I'd looked a the Speculation post before you updated it. I just received my Opera Magazine yesterday.
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