INTRODUCTION

Hello, there. I'm Professor Peter Schickele... Yes, that's right. THE Professor Peter Schickele. I'm the musicalologist who made what is probably the most sensational musicolological discovery of the century.

The discovery that the reason there is virtually no biographical information in European archives on JohannSebastianBach for the year 1712 is that during that year the young German composer, already a famous organist, was hired to come to the American colony to test the newly installed church organ in here in Western Massachussets. Bach's adventures on that trip...

Oh boy, they're getting bigger! Bach's adventures on that trip became a favourite story in the family, passed along from generation to generation. And the composers' youngest son, PDQBach, used these events as the basis of one of the most ambitious, and certainly the most programatic of his instrumental compositions. So now, let us hear the 1712Overture by PDQBach, the last and most authorities feel the least of the great post Johan Sebastian generation from...