Surely ... surely ... SURELY I'm not the only grubby obsessive out there in BlortSpace who, when being apprised by this morning's Washington Post of the discovery of a fragment of a hitherto unknown Bach aria in a shoebox in Weimar immediately supplied the remainder of the lead paragraph:In 1954 Professor Peter Schickele, rummaging around a Bavarian castle in search of rare musical gems, happened instead upon the original manuscript of a Sanka Cantata by one P.D.Q. Bach, being employed as a strainer in the caretaker's percolator. A cursory examination of the music immediately revealed the reason for the atrocious taste of the coffee; and when the work was finally performed at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople, the Professor realized too late that he had released a monster on the musical world.Inspired, I hopped over to my Short-Tempered Clavier and banged out a Pervertimento, a Serenude, a Perückenstück, and the Andante from the Schleptet in E-flat major.
What a wonderful day for music!
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