title: Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air
text: # 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.
  
  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
  * Classical music
  