P.D.Q. Bach - Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Sportscast

P.D.Q. Bach - Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Sportscast (New Horizons in Music Appreciation)
Professor Peter Schickele, announcer
Robert Dennis, color commentator
The New York Mills Philharmonic
Heiliger Dankgesang, conductor
Being the center of P. D. Q. Bach studies in the United States indeed, in the world is not the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople's only claim to fame. History was made by this writer when U. of S.N.D. at H's radio station broadcast this presentation of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (the "Famous") in a program that boldly opened up dramatic new vistas in the volatile, dynamic, ever-changing field of high school Music Appreciation.
Huge amounts of time and money have been spent on this area of human endeavor, both for young people and adults, since everybody knows that you can't really be enjoying something unless you can tell why you're enjoying it. But the effectiveness of reading or hearing a lengthy explanation of what's happening in a piece of music is vitiated by your usually forgetting most of what you have read or heard by the time you get around to hearing the music about which you were reading or hearing. It occurred to this writer that a feather might be taken from the cap of sporting events, or rather the broadcasting of sporting events, whose distant audiences are never asked to rely on their memories for more than a few seconds at a time to stem the encroaching tide of ignorance that threatens to engulf our concert halls. In short, tell it like it is while it is. That this approach is indeed effective is anested to by many teachers, who tell me that they use this presentation of the Fifth as an introduction to Beethoven or to the symphony or to sonata form or to phonograph records.
Although not a work by P.D.Q. Bach or even in any way relevant to his oeuvre, we take great pride in presenting this landmark in the history of pedagogical desperation.
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