Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Schickele, whose comedic parodies of classical music overshadowed his own strengths as a serious composer, died Tuesday at ...

Mary Huebner talks about how the Voices in the Oaks Chorale presents a concert featuring P.D.Q. Bach’s Dramatic Oratorio, Oedipus Tex. Coralee Thompson who plays Madam Peep and Narrator Jim Pollack ...

CEDAR FALLS - Peter Schickele delights in the absurd. Born in Ames, the renowned composer grew up in Washington, D.C., and Fargo, N.D., where he enjoyed the distinction - or "notoriety" - as the first ...

Peter Schickele, a Grammy Award-winning composer and wry humorist who presented himself as the world’s leading authority on the rule-fracturing P.D.Q. Bach, the “last and least” of J.S. Bach’s musical ...

Peter Schickele, an American composer whose career as a writer of serious concert music was often eclipsed by that of his antic alter ego, the thoroughly debauched, terrifyingly prolific and ...