INTRODUCTION

Of course, the milieu in which PDQBach spent most of his time was neither the austere milieu of the church nor the pompous milieu of the court, but the convivial milieu of the taverns and alehouses that so liberally littered the landscape of Wein-on-Rheim. It was undoubtedly for drinking companions such as Thomas Collins, Porcellina Speck, and Jonathan "Boozey" Hawkes that PDQ wrote AConsortOfChoralChristmasCarols, SchickeleNumber 359.

With these 3 seasonal songs: ThrowTheYuleLogOnUncleJohn, OLittleTownOfHackensack, and GoodKingKongLookedOut, we bring to a close this portrait of a composer who has been called "a crack in the dam of culture." Imagine if you will a barely sentient PDQBach surrounded by his coarse but congenial friends all of them quaffing seemingley bottomless tankards of holiday grog as they sing: AConsortOfChoralChristmasCarols