An Evening with Peter Schickele, March 27, 2018

Robert Blocker, Dean

oneppo chamber music series

An Evening with Peter Schickele

David Shifrin, Artistic Director Tuesday, March 27, 2018 • 7:30 pm Morse Recital Hall

Oneppo Chamber Music Series

“Notes I Have Known� an evening with peter schickele

Renowned composer, radio host, and P.D.Q. Bach creator Peter Schickele shares stories and insights from his more than five decades as a performer and musician. From his early musical life in his hometown of Fargo, North Dakota, to his adventures as a young composer in New York City in the 1960’s and the early student concerts that eventually became the worldwide classical music phenomenon known as P.D.Q. Bach, Schickele recounts tales that delight, entertain and illuminate. A rare and intimate event with a beloved musical and comedic legend and gifted story-teller.

Mr. Schickele will conclude his talk with a question and answer session.

People with questions are invited to speak from the microphones in the aisles.

As a courtesy to the performers and audience, silence electronic devices.

Please do not leave the hall during selections. Photography or recording of any kind is prohibited.

Artist Profile

Composer, musician, author, and satirist Peter Schickele is internationally recognized as one of the most versatile artists in the field of music. 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, New York Times).

by the Blair Woodwind Quintet; Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, with Danielle Farina and the Pasadena Symphony under Jorge Mester; Music for Orcas Island, for the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival; Symphony No. 2 “The Sweet Season,” premiered by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra under Stefan Sanderling; Concerto for Cello and Orchestra “In Memoriam F.D.R.” performed by Paul Tobias with the Pasadena Symphony under Jorge Mester; New Century Suite, a His commissions are numerous and varied, concerto for saxophone quartet and orchranging from works for the National estra, commissioned by the New Century Symphony, the Saint Louis Symphony, Saxophone Quartet and premiered by The Minnesota Opera, The Chamber them with the North Carolina Symphony; Music Society of Lincoln Center, The New Goldberg Variations for cello and piano, Audubon and Lark String Quartets, the performed by Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax; Minnesota Orchestral Association, and Symphony No. 1 “Songlines,” premiered many other such organizations, to comp- by the National Symphony under Leonard ositions for distinguished instrumentalists Slatkin, and since performed across the and singers. His recent premieres include country by orchestras including the New Spring Forward for clarinet and string York Philharmonic and the Cleveland quartet, commissioned by Chamber Orchestra; Blue Set No. 1, a jazz string Music Northwest and La Jolla Music quartet commissioned by the Greene Society SummerFest, and premiered by Quartet and recorded on the Virgin label, David Shifrin and the Miró Quartet and among others. The Armadillo String Burt Hara and the Huntington Quartet; Quartet has presented annual concerts of Percussion Sonata No. 3 “Maverick,” com- Mr. Schickele’s chamber music in Los missioned by Garry and Diane Kvistad Angeles since 1991. and the Woodstock Chimes Fund, and premiered by Nexus; Three Songs on 17 th Among the recordings recently released Century Lyrics, premiered by Maria Todaro are Schickele’s Concerto for Bassoon and at the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice; Orchestra, featuring George Sakakeeny Piano Trio “Alaria,” commissioned and and the Oberlin Orchestra under Raphael premiered by the Alaria Trio; After Hearing Jimeniz; Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, Bach, for oboe and string trio, premiered featuring Robert Spring with the ProMusica by the Armadillo Quartet and Keve Wilson; Chamber Orchestra of Columbus on Lincoln at Ease, for narrator and orchestra, Summit Records; the Grammy Awardcommissioned and premiered by the winning Hornsmoke, featuring the title Louisville Orchestra under Jorge Mester; piece as well as Brass Calendar and other A Year in the Catskills for woodwind quintet, works for brass quintet, performed by commissioned, premiered and recorded the Chestnut Brass Company on Newport

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Classics; Schickele on a Lark, including the Quintet No. 2 for Piano and Strings, String Quartet No. 2 “In Memoriam” and the Sextet for Strings, with the Lark Quartet on Arabesque; The Emperor’s New Clothes, for narrator and chamber ensemble, commissioned and performed

by An die Musik on Newport Classic; and another album of chamber music for strings, including String Quartet No. 1 “American Dreams,” the Quintet No. 1 for Piano and Strings, and String Quartet No. 5 “A Year in the Country,” with the Audubon Quartet on Centaur. Other compositions may be heard on RCA Red Seal, Vanguard, Crystal, CRI, D’Note, Carlton, Koch International, and MusicMasters.

Saint-Saëns work with major American orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic at its gala New Year’s Eve concert in 1991. His chamber programs, P.D.Q. Bach and Peter Schickele: The Jekyll and Hyde Tour and The “What’s Your Sign?” Tour, have received wide acclaim.

He has also toured with a program of original cabaret songs, singing from the piano with the harmonizing assistance of David Düsing.

Peter Schickele was born on July 17, 1935, in Ames, Iowa, and brought up in Washington, D.C., and Fargo, North Dakota, where he studied composition with Sigvald Thompson. He graduated from Swarthmore in 1957, having had Peter Schickele arranged one of the musical the distinction of being the only music segments for the Disney animated feature major (as he had been, earlier, the only bassoonist in Fargo). By that time he had film Fantasia 2000. He also created the musical score for the film version of Maurice already composed and conducted four Sendak’s children’s classic Where the Wild orchestral works, a great deal of chamber Things Are, issued on videocassette (Weston music and a number of songs. He subseWoods) and DVD (Scholastic) along with quently studied composition with Roy another Sendak classic, In the Night Kitchen, Harris and Darius Milhaud, and with Vincent Persichetti and William Bergsma which Mr. Schickele narrates. For many at The Juilliard School of Music. He years he did a weekly syndicated radio program, Schickele Mix, which was heard composed music for high schools in Los nationwide over Public Radio International Angeles under a Ford Foundation grant before returning to teach at Juilliard in and which won ASCAP’s prestigious 1961. In 1965 he gave up teaching to become Deems Taylor Award. the freelance composer/performer he has been ever since.

In 1993 Telarc released a recording of Prokofiev’s Sneaky Pete and the Wolf and In the course of his career Schickele has Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals with new texts authored and narrated by Peter also created music for four feature films, among them the prize-winning Silent Schickele, accompanied by the Atlanta Running, as well as for documentaries, Symphony Orchestra under Yoel Levi.

Mr. Schickele gave the New York premiere television commercials, several Sesame Street segments, and an underground of Sneaky Pete and the Wolf at Carnegie movie that he has never seen in its Hall as part of the 1993 Toyota Comedy finished state. He was also one of the Festival and has performed the

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composer/lyricists for Oh! Calcutta!, and has arranged for Joan Baez, Buffy SainteMarie, and other folk singers.

Mr. Schickele and his wife, the poet Susan Sindall, reside in New York City and at an upstate hideaway where he concentrates on composing. His son, Matthew, works at New World Records and writes concert music and songs for the band M Shanghai, in which he also sings and plays guitar.

His daughter, Karla, founded and runs the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls; she also writes songs and plays in Ida and her own band, k.

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