Thirteen Week Series Produced by KXMS:
Bud Clark Presents P.D.Q. Bach
(Honorable Mention winner of the 2001 Communicator Awards)

Bud Clark, professor of choral studies at Missouri Southern State University, is your host for a new 13-week series examining the life and music of P.D.Q. Bach, the last and oddest of the 20-odd children of J.S. Bach. P.D.Q. Bach's music constantly resurfaces in the most unlikely places, thanks to the tireless efforts of musicalologist Peter Schickele, recent lifetime achievement honoree of the 2001 Fine Arts Radio International® Awards.

The new radio series will feature the many unusual instruments utilized so ineffectively by P.D.Q. Bach in his compositions, the tromboon, the lasso d'amore, and the hardart, to name just a few. Professor Clark will also season the musical mix with a few of the compositions of Peter Schickele, professor of music at the University of North Dakota at Hoople, himself a bassoon player and writer of film scores, classical chamber music, and jazz.

Among the many questionable musical efforts to be examined will be "New Horizons in Music Appreciation" (Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in play-by-play with color commentary presented by WOOF Radio) and the oratorio "Oedipus Tex," featuring "Ed's" love interest, Billy Jocasta. We're talkin' never-ending tragedy here!

The Klassix Society sponsored a bus trip for delighted Schickele fans who attended the June 12, 2001 "Jekyll and Hyde" tour concert presented by Professor Schickele and friends at the 17th season of the OK Mozart Festival in Bartlesville.