Survival Kit

PETER SCHICKELE

Sunday, June 16, 2002

Peter Schickele has so many personae that I’m almost afraid to ask which one composed his survival kit list. There’s the composer Peter Schickele, who has written serious classical music, folk music arrangements, and film scores; Professor Peter Schickele, head of the Department of Musical Pathology of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople, discoverer and champion of the work of PDQ Bach, “history’s most justifiably neglected composer; and, of course, the host of public radio’s Schickele Mix, who has tried to to broaden our understanding of all types of music. Well, lets find out what’s in his cultural survival kit, and maybe even figure out which Peter Schickele put it together.

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