An Hysteric Return: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall

An Hysteric Return: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall
Live album by P. D. Q. Bach
Released	1966
Label	Vanguard Records
P. D. Q. Bach chronology
Peter Schickele Presents an Evening with P. D. Q. Bach (1807–1742?) (1965) An Hysteric Return: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall (1966) Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air (1967)

An Hysteric Return: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall is live recording of a P. D. Q. Bach concert in Carnegie Hall and was released on Vanguard Records in 1966.

Performers[]

• Professor Peter Schickele, bicycle, windbreaker, tromboon
• The Royal P.D.Q. Bach Festival Orchestra, Jorge Mester, conductor
• Lorna Haywood, soprano
• Marlena Kleinman, alto
• John Ferrante, tenor
• William Woolf, bass
• The Okay Chorale, John Nelson, director
• Maurice Eisenstadt, bagpipes
• Robert Lewis, balloons

Track listing[]

1. Oratorio — The Seasonings, S. 1½ tsp.

• Chorus: "Tarragon of virtue is full"
• Recitative: "And there were in the same country"
• Duet: "Bide thy thyme"
• Fugue
• Recitative: "Then asked he"
• Chorale: "By the leeks of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept"
• Aria: "Open sesame seeds"
• Recitative: "So saying"
• Duet: "Summer is a cumin seed"
• Chorus with soloists: "To curry favor, favor curry"

2. "Unbegun" Symphony (Schickele)

• III. Minuet
• IV. Andante — Allegro

3. Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, S. 66

• Allegro moulto
• Romanze II (Adagio Sireno)
• Minaret and Trio
• Romanze I (Chi Largo)
• Presto Changio

Sources[]

• An Hysteric Return: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall

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