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What's New Schickele Preview

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A new program airs Sunday nights on WBAA Classical: What's New. Host John Clare features new music, new releases, and interesting guests. Hear a special preview of this week's What's New, and let us know what you think.

Peter Schickele will be 81 years young Sunday, July 17th. He's a composer who also "discovered" P.D.Q. Bach. Schickele says:

“I don't like the term serious music. It implies that all those other musicians like folk, jazz, and rock musicians aren't serious, when they are. The other reason I don't like it, is that it implies that there is this one box over here called serious music, and another box over here called funny, and there is no connection between them. To me, it’s a continuum.”

We'll hear music from composer Peter Schickele, and from P.D.Q. Bach as well! One of his best known skits, is New Horizons in Music Appreication, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony seen below:

What's New airs Sunday nights from 10pm to 12am, and Tuesdays from 8 to 10pm on WBAA Classical on 101.3FM and online at WBAA.org.

John Nasukaluk Clare is comfortable behind a microphone, streaming video or playing violin. A former broadcaster for NPR, John has previously worked with Voice of America, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation and stations in Texas, Kansas, Nevada, California, and Pennsylvania. In 2005, Clare earned the Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP for radio broadcasting, citing his work on 20/20 Hearing. Having performed with famed tenors Luciano Pavarotti and Andrea Bocelli, John has worked with the Mozart Festival Texas, Mid Texas Symphony, Nevada Chamber Symphony, Shreveport Symphony, Abilene Philharmonic and Wichita Symphony Orchestra.
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