At age 18, after listening to J.S. Bach's Coffee cantata, Peter Schickele wrote a goofball instant parody: the Sanka cantata. He attributed it to P.D.Q. Bach, "the last and least" of J.S. Bach's ...

Peter Schickele, whose comedic parodies of classical music overshadowed his own strengths as a serious composer, died Tuesday at his home in Bearsville, N.Y. at 88. His daughter confirmed the death ...

PETER SCHICKELE: Well, hello there, everybody. This is your friendly professor, Peter Schickele. BIANCULLI: The composer, musician, author and comedian Peter Schickele died last week. He was 88 years ...

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PITTSFIELD -- Aside from being the discoverer and curator of the curious oeuvre of P.D.Q. Bach, Professor Peter Schickele has been renowned over more than half-a-century for his dramatic entrances at ...

BIANCULLI: But Peter Schickele was best known for concocting, presenting and performing the works of P.D.Q. Bach, whom Schickele claimed was the youngest and oddest of Johann Sebastian Bach's 20-odd ...

PITTSFIELD -- Peter Schickele brings his "P.D.Q. Bach Jekyll and Hyde Tour" to the Colonial Theatre Tuesday evening at 7:30. "P.D.Q. Bach and Peter Schickele: The Jekyll and Hyde Tour" is a two-faced ...

TROY, N.Y. >> The Empire State Youth Orchestra will open its season this weekend with a local performance featuring music of the legendary P.D.Q. Bach. Special guest pianist Jeffrey Biegel, who has ...