Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air

Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air was released on Vanguard Records in 1967. It is set up as a radio broadcast of the music of P. D. Q. Bach with Professor Peter Schickele as the DJ.

Report from Hoople: P.D.Q. Bach on the Air
Studio album by P. D. Q. Bach
Released	1967
Genre	Classical Comedy
Length	49:51
Label	Vanguard Records
P. D. Q. Bach chronology
An Hysteric Return: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall (1966) Report from Hoople: P.D.Q. Bach on the Air (1967) The Stoned Guest (1970)

In addition to P. D. Q. Bach music, the record includes "New Horizons in Music Appreciation", a piece in which Schickele and Robert Dennis do a play-by-play on a performance of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as if it were a baseball game.

On the back cover, Schickele thanks "members of his graduate seminar in Accidental Originality" including future famous composer Philip Glass.

Performers

• Professor Peter Schickele, conductor, announcer, worm (an instrument)
• I Virtuosi di Hoople
• John Ferrante, bargain counter tenor
• Robert Dennis, announcer
• Heinrich Seifenblase, piano
• Emmanuel Pedal, four-handed organist

Radio Log

Bright and Early Show

Track 1 (8:12)

• 00:00 Signature theme (from Diverse Ayres on Sundrie Notions, S. 99 44/100)
• 00:16 Intro
• 01:34 Echo Sonata for Two Unfriendly Groups of Instruments, S. 99999999
• 04:52 Tag
• 05:00 Station break
• 05:18 Commercial: "Do You Suffer?" (from Diverse Ayres on Sundrie Notions, S. 99 44/100)

Track 2 (11:53)

• 08:10 New Horizons in Music Appreciation: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (Schickele, with Robert Dennis)
• 16:58 Time
• 17:23 Weather
• 18:17 News

Track 3 (5:04)

• 20:00 Intro
• 20:44 Traumarai for Unaccompanied Piano, S. 13
• 24:11 Station break
• 24:26 Tag
• 24:44 Signature theme

Dull and Late Show

Track 4 (9:27)

• 00:00 Signature theme
• 00:40 Intro
• 01:09 Schleptet in E♭ major, S. 0
  • Molto Larghissimo – Allegro Boffo
  • Menuetto con Brio ma senza Trio
  • Adagio Saccharino
  • Yehudi Menuetto
  • Presto Hey Nonny Nonnio
• 08:55 Tag
• 09:22 Station break

Track 5 (7:22)

• 09:26 What's My Melodic Line? (featuring works by Archangelo Spumoni, fictitious composer)
• 14:30 Time
• 15:03 News

Track 6 (7:53)

• 16:45 Intro
• 17:26 Fugue in C minor (Fuga Vulgaris from the Toot Suite for Calliope Four Hands, S. 212°)
• 20:11 Tag
• 20:42 Station break
• 20:46 What's Happening in Home Economics (Beethoven's Revenge, containing a small selection from the middle of the first movement of Symphony No. 3 "Eroica")
• 21:34 Commercial: "If You Have Never" (from Diverse Ayres on Sundrie Notions, S. 99 44/100)
• 22:40 Sign-off
• 23:34 Signature theme

Sources

• Report from Hoople: P.D.Q. Bach On The Air, schickele.com