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Composer, musician, author, satirist - Peter Schickele is internationally recognized as one of the most versatile artists in the field of music. Peter Schickele was born in Ames, Iowa, and brought up in Washington, D.C., and Fargo, North Dakota. He graduated from Swarthmore in 1957, having had the distinction of being the only music major (as he had been, earlier, the only bassoonist in Fargo), and by that time he had already composed and conducted four orchestral works, a great deal of chamber music, and some songs.

Schickele studied composition with Roy Harris and Darius Milhaud and at the Juilliard School of Music with Vincent Persichetti and William Bergsma. His works, now well in excess of 100 for symphony orchestras, choral groups, chamber ensembles, voice, movies, and television, have given him "a leading role in the ever-more-prominent school of American composers who unselfconsciously blend all levels of American music." (John Rockwell, The New York Times).

He has annually given all-Schickele chamber music concerts at New York's Merkin Hall and Brooklyn's Barge Music. In Los Angeles, the Armadillo String Quartet has presented an annual Schickele "gala" for now 10 years. In their 2000-2001 season, the Pasadena Symphony will present the world premiere of Shickele's new cello concerto, "In Memoriam FDR."

As a musicologist, Peter Schickele's greatest contribution to our world is the "discovery" of P.D.Q. Bach. In his role as perpetrator of the oeuvre of the now-classic P.D.Q. Bach, Schickele is acknowledged as one of the great satirists of the 20th century. In testimony, Vanguard Records has released 11 albums of the fabled genius's works. Random House has published 11 editions of The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach (which has also been translated into German). Theodore Presser has printed innumerable scores, and VideoArts International has produced a cassette of P.D.Q. Bach's only full-length opera, The Abduction of Figaro. His Telarc P.D.Q. Bach discs: 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults, Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities, WTWP Ñ Classical Talkity-Talk Radio, and Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion, have earned four consecutive Grammy awards. His most recent Telarc release, Two Pianos are Better than One, features the world premiere recording of P.D.Q. Bach's Concerto for Two Pianos versus Orchestra.

The concerts of P.D.Q. Bach's oeuvre, which began as annual affairs at Juilliard and the Aspen Music Festival, burst upon the general public in April 1965 at New York's Town Hall. Although on an "indefinite sabbatical" from touring with the works of P.D.Q. Bach, Schickele continues to present both old and new discoveries of his music at Carnegie Hall each December.

In the course of his career Schickele has created music for four feature films, among them the prize-winning "Silent Running," countless documentaries, television commercials, several "Sesame Street" segments, and for an underground movie that he has never seen. Schickele and his wife, poet Susan Sindall, reside in New York City and at an upstate hideaway where he concentrates on composing. He continues to tour with a program entitled "The Condition of My Heart," combining Schickele's songs with the poetry of his wife. His son and daughter constitute two-thirds of an alternative rock band called Beekeeper that plays regularly in New York City.

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	Monday Night... Listening to Movies Film music & soundtracks American Mosaic Geoffrey Fontaine Tuesday Night... Keyboard Classics from Schnabel to Argerich Galactic Voyager music for a new age The Romantic Hours poetry, loveletters and music Wednesday Night... Schickele Mix Beyond PDQ Bach KCSN Opera House best performances in the world Thursday Night... CSUN Live Concerts from home and abroad The David and Peter Show Broadway, their way The Romantic Hours poetry, loveletters and music Friday Night... Madly Cocktail shaken not stirred The Green Room Surf music at the millennium Saturday Night... American Routes from PRI The British Invasion Beatles,Stones, Kinks, more Sarcastic Fringehead alternative music undefined Sunday Night... American Routes from PRI Frequencia Latina music from the Latino diaspora The Grateful Dead Hour America's best loved band Ken Nordine's Word Jazz masterful, magical Radio
				An Antigone Story BBC World Service Center Theater Group The Eclectic Orange Performing Arts Festival Getty Center Glendale Symphony Grand Performances Hollywood Bowl Huntington Library, Art collections and Botanical Gardens John Anson Ford Ampitheatre Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles Opera L.A. Philharmonic Los Angeles Public Library Museum of TV & Radio Norton Simon Museum Opera Pacific Pacific Asia Museum Pasadena Playhouse Pasadena Symphony Performance Today Public Radio International San Francisco Symphony Santa Monica Twilight Dance Series Skirball Cultural Center TheaterMania UCLA Performing Arts Valley Cultural Center Will Geer Theatricum
		This engaging one-hour weekly program is hosted by composer and musicologist Peter Schickele. Schickele Mix illuminates the interrelatedness of all music, from Beethoven to the Beatles, with a sometimes nod to the last, but certainly, not least, of Johann Sebastian Bach's some 20 odd offspring. WEDNESDAY 7 - 8 p.m.

		Peter Schickele

		Composer, musician, author, satirist - Peter Schickele is internationally recognized as one of the most versatile artists in the field of music. Peter Schickele was born in Ames, Iowa, and brought up in Washington, D.C., and Fargo, North Dakota. He graduated from Swarthmore in 1957, having had the distinction of being the only music major (as he had been, earlier, the only bassoonist in Fargo), and by that time he had already composed and conducted four orchestral works, a great deal of chamber music, and some songs. Schickele studied composition with Roy Harris and Darius Milhaud and at the Juilliard School of Music with Vincent Persichetti and William Bergsma. His works, now well in excess of 100 for symphony orchestras, choral groups, chamber ensembles, voice, movies, and television, have given him "a leading role in the ever-more-prominent school of American composers who unselfconsciously blend all levels of American music." (John Rockwell, The New York Times). He has annually given all-Schickele chamber music concerts at New York's Merkin Hall and Brooklyn's Barge Music. In Los Angeles, the Armadillo String Quartet has presented an annual Schickele "gala" for now 10 years. In their 2000-2001 season, the Pasadena Symphony will present the world premiere of Shickele's new cello concerto, "In Memoriam FDR." As a musicologist, Peter Schickele's greatest contribution to our world is the "discovery" of P.D.Q. Bach. In his role as perpetrator of the oeuvre of the now-classic P.D.Q. Bach, Schickele is acknowledged as one of the great satirists of the 20th century. In testimony, Vanguard Records has released 11 albums of the fabled genius's works. Random House has published 11 editions of The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach (which has also been translated into German). Theodore Presser has printed innumerable scores, and VideoArts International has produced a cassette of P.D.Q. Bach's only full-length opera, The Abduction of Figaro. His Telarc P.D.Q. Bach discs: 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults, Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities, WTWP Ñ Classical Talkity-Talk Radio, and Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion, have earned four consecutive Grammy awards. His most recent Telarc release, Two Pianos are Better than One, features the world premiere recording of P.D.Q. Bach's Concerto for Two Pianos versus Orchestra. The concerts of P.D.Q. Bach's oeuvre, which began as annual affairs at Juilliard and the Aspen Music Festival, burst upon the general public in April 1965 at New York's Town Hall. Although on an "indefinite sabbatical" from touring with the works of P.D.Q. Bach, Schickele continues to present both old and new discoveries of his music at Carnegie Hall each December. In the course of his career Schickele has created music for four feature films, among them the prize-winning "Silent Running," countless documentaries, television commercials, several "Sesame Street" segments, and for an underground movie that he has never seen. Schickele and his wife, poet Susan Sindall, reside in New York City and at an upstate hideaway where he concentrates on composing. He continues to tour with a program entitled "The Condition of My Heart," combining Schickele's songs with the poetry of his wife. His son and daughter constitute two-thirds of an alternative rock band called Beekeeper that plays regularly in New York City.