An Hysteric Return: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall

An Hysteric Return: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall is live recording of a P. D. Q. Bach concert in Carnegie Hall and was released on Vanguard Records in 1966.

Performers

• Professor Peter Schickele, bicycle, windbreaker, tromboon
• The Royal P.D.Q. Bach Festival Orchestra, Jorge Mester, conductor
• Lorna Haywood, soprano
• Marlena Kleinman, alto
• John Ferrante, tenor
• William Woolf, bass
• The Okay Chorale, John Nelson, director
• Maurice Eisenstadt, bagpipes
• Robert Lewis, balloons

Track listing

1. Oratorio — The Seasonings, S. 1½ tsp. (P.D.Q. Bach)

• Chorus: "Tarragon of virtue is full"
• Recitative: "And there were in the same country"
• Duet: "Bide thy thyme"
• Fugue
• Recitative: "Then asked he"
• Chorale: "By the leeks of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept"
• Aria: "Open sesame seeds"
• Recitative: "So saying"
• Duet: "Summer is a cumin seed"
• Chorus with soloists: "To curry favor, favor curry"

2. "Unbegun" Symphony, (Prof. Schickele)

• III. Minuet
• IV. Andante — Allegro

3. Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, S. 66 (P.D.Q. Bach)

• Allegro moulto
• Romanze II (Adagio Sireno)
• Minaret and Trio
• Romanze I (Chi Largo)
• Presto Changio

Source

An Hysteric Return: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall