In article <Xns9A976BF1BEB6Bxs11emailinatorcom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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XS11E <xs11e@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > It's the same with classical music jokes (q.v., PDQ Bach's
> > "Concerto for Horn and Hardart" et al.).
>
> That's more of a food joke and one that people should get Automat-
> ically.... <Ouch!>
Food joke, NYC joke, whatever. I had the dubious pleasure of "dining" at
H&H years before the first PDQ album came out in 1965 (and promptly blew
me away, music geek that I am).
As a solo instrument, the hardart is a large console with divers objects
on top that are struck, plucked, blown into or otherwise abused to
produce a chromatic scale. There are also some balloons and a shotgun.
The mallets, etc., are obtained by inserting coins that open doors to
their compartments. Voilą, the parody is complete.
The best part about PDQ Bach is the imaginative titles: Iphigenia in
Brooklyn, Royal Firewater Musick, Pervertimento, Serenude, Sonata for
Viola/Four Hands, Toot Suite, Fanfare for the Common Cold, and the
operas Einstein on the Fritz and The Abduction of Figaro.
If you're not a music geek, though, best just go back to your iPod.
--
Lanny Chambers
St. Louis, MO
'94C
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