{"id":12089,"date":"2024-01-20T16:13:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T16:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/?p=12089"},"modified":"2024-02-04T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T13:08:38","slug":"vale-peter-schickele-1935-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/vale-peter-schickele-1935-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale:  Peter Schickele (1935-2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The composer and musician Peter Schickele, manager of that lesser-known last son of JS Bach, PDQ Bach, has just died. He was heavily influenced by Spike Jones, whose music was a strong presence in my household growing up. With the death last year of <a href=\"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/australian-improv-comedy-pre-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barry Humphries<\/A>, it feels like the 1950s may now just have ended.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>From his obituary in <em>The New York Times<\/em>, Mr Schickele is quoted as having said in an interview with the Times in 2015:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Years ago I used to watch Victor Borge, still concertizing in his 80s. And it never occurred to me that I would do the same. I&#8217;m amazed that P.D.Q. has gone on for 50 years. <\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>It just goes to show:  Some people never learn.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The composer and musician Peter Schickele, manager of that lesser-known last son of JS Bach, PDQ Bach, has just died. He was heavily influenced by Spike Jones, whose music was a strong presence in my household growing up. With the death last year of Barry Humphries, it feels like the 1950s may now just have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,56,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-music","category-obits","p1","y2024","m01","d20","h16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12089"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12133,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12089\/revisions\/12133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}