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

Album by P.D.Q. Bach; John Ferrante, I Virtuosi di Hoople, Professor Peter Schickele

Released 1967

1
Signature Theme / Intro / Echo Sonata for Two Unfriendly Groups of Instruments / Tag / Station Break / Commercial “Do you suffer?”
P.D.Q. Bach
8:08
2
New Horizons in Music Appreciation: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (with Robert Dennis) / Time / Weather / News
P.D.Q. Bach
11:50
3
Intro / Traumarei for Unaccompanied Piano / Station Break / Tag / Signature Theme
P.D.Q. Bach
5:58
4
Signature Theme / Intro / Schleptet in E‐flat major / Tag / Station Break
P.D.Q. Bach
9:20
5
What’s My Melodic Line? / Time / News
P.D.Q. Bach
7:23
6
Intro / Fugue in C minor (from the Toot Suite for Calliope Four Hands / Tag / Station Break / What’s Happening in Home Economics (Beethoven’s Revenge) / Commercial “If you have never” / Sign‐Off / Signature Theme
P.D.Q. Bach
7:52

Fred Holtz
design
I Virtuosi di Hoople
performing orchestra
John Ferrante
countertenor vocals [1, 3, 5-6], solo [1, 3, 5-6]
Lawrence Widdoes
illustration
Paul “Buck” Hoeffler
photography
Peter Schickele
liner notes, baritone vocals [6], calliope [6], conductor, solo [6], spoken vocals
Robert Dennis
spoken vocals [2]
Seymour Solomon
assistant [1-2, 4-6]
Stephen Schmidt
assistant [1-2, 4-6]