{"id":14147,"date":"2015-08-21T08:19:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T13:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=14147"},"modified":"2015-08-24T07:13:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T12:13:45","slug":"cultural-interlude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/cultural-interlude\/","title":{"rendered":"Suite in B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f0vHpeUO5mw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2015 marks the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Schickele_Presents_an_Evening_with_P._D._Q._Bach_(1807\u20131742%3F)\" target=\"_blank\">50th anniversary<\/a> of the discovery of P.D.Q. Bach by Peter Schickele. (Strictly speaking, the above isn&#8217;t P.D.Q.B., though it is from one of the early albums.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another approach to Beethoven. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogforboys.net\" target=\"_blank\">the Borderline Boy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6CTA8-mFAqI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>1965 also saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Baroque-Beatles-Book-Joshua-Rifkin\/dp\/B001QITOQG\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Baroque Beatles Book<\/a> of Joshua Rifkin.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9o9Zk6s2x_s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richieunterberger.com\/rifkin.html\" target=\"_blank\">liner notes of a reissue<\/a>, Schickele was the first choice to write the arrangements, but he had just been signed to a different label, so Rifkin got the job. Incidentally, Rifkin sang in the first performance of P.D.Q. Bach&#8217;s &#8220;Iphigenia in Brooklyn.&#8221; A few years later, he would jumpstart the ragtime revival with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Piano-Rags-Rifkin\/dp\/B000005IYF\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Joplin recordings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a more modern approach to the Beatles.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z0oxtBwZ2d4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Glorieux&#8217;s Beatle recordings, which range stylistically from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b4KslXk9mhg\" target=\"_blank\">Bach<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rDK0pW8hFxk\" target=\"_blank\">Bartok<\/a>, are out of print, but you can find them on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the discovery of P.D.Q. Bach by Peter Schickele. (Strictly speaking, the above isn&#8217;t P.D.Q.B., though it is from one of the early albums.) Here&#8217;s another approach to Beethoven. (Via the Borderline Boy.) 1965 also saw The Baroque Beatles Book of Joshua Rifkin. According to the liner notes of a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/cultural-interlude\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Suite in B&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-humor-and-horror","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-3Gb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14147"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14177,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14147\/revisions\/14177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}