Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion
Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion was released in 1992 by Telarc Records. The album contains one piece by Professor Peter Schickele writing under his own name and several pieces by him as P. D. Q. Bach.
This album won the Grammy Award for best comedy album in 1992. The runners-up were Naked Beneath My Clothes, Jonathan Winters is Terminator 3, An Evening with George Burns and Off the Deep End.
Performers
- Professor Peter Schickele, intellectual guide
- Turtle Mountain Naval Base Tactical Wind Ensemble
- Tennessee Bassoon Quartet
- David McGill, bassoon
- Ronald Bishop, tuba
Track listing
- Introduction
- Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds & Percussion, S. 1000
- *Grand Entrance
- *Simply Grand Minuet
- *Romance in the Grand Manner
- *Rondo Mucho Grando
- Introduction
- "Dutch" Suite in G Major, S. -16
- *Mr. Minuit's Minuet
- *Panther Dance
- *Dance of the Grand Dams
- *The Lowland Fling
- Introduction
- Six Contrary Dances, S. 39
- *Maestoso animoso
- *Daintissimo
- *Allegro, but not too mucho
- *Molto moderato
- *Vivace cucarace
- *Moving right alongo
- Introduction
- Lip My Reeds, S. 32'
- Door Prize Scene: Fanfare for Fred, S. F4F
- Introduction
- March of the Cute Little Wood Sprites, S. Onesy Twosy
- Introduction
- Last Tango in Bayreuth
- Closing