And we all here should appreciate "The Stoned Guest", the half-act opera by
PDQ Bach which included the off-coloratura "Carmen Ghia". My favorite is
"New Horizons in Music Appreciation" (And they're off.....)
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Ken Lyons '97 Brilliant Black/'90 Classic Red
Inside the Beltway
"Lanny Chambers" <lanny@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <Xns9A976BF1BEB6Bxs11emailinatorcom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> XS11E <xs11e@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> > 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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