Peter Schickele hosted a long-running weekly radio program called Schickele Mix.
18 Facts About Peter Schickele
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Peter Schickele's father, Rainer Schickele, son of the writer Rene Schickele, was an agricultural economist teaching at Iowa State University.
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In 1945, Peter Schickele's father took a position at George Washington University in Washington, DC; then, in 1946, became chairman of the Agricultural Sciences Department at North Dakota Agricultural College in Fargo, North Dakota.
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In Fargo, the younger Peter Schickele studied composition with Sigvald Thompson.
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Peter Schickele attended Fargo Central High School, graduating in 1952.
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Peter Schickele then attended Swarthmore College, graduating in 1957 with a degree in music; he was the first student at Swarthmore, and the only student in his class, to earn a music degree.
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Peter Schickele was a contemporary of Ted Nelson at Swarthmore, and he scored Nelson's experimental film, The Epiphany of Slocum Furlow.
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Peter Schickele graduated from the Juilliard School in 1960 with a master's degree in musical composition.
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Peter Schickele wrote music for a number of folk musicians, most notably Joan Baez, for whom he orchestrated and arranged three albums during the mid-1960s, Noel, Joan, and Baptism.
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Peter Schickele composed the original score for the 1972 science fiction film Silent Running.
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Bach is ostensibly a Baroque composer, Peter Schickele extends his repertoire to parody much more modern works, for example Einstein on the Fritz, a parody of his Juilliard classmate Philip Glass.
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Peter Schickele performed two concerts to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his first concert, at The Town Hall in New York on December 28 and 29,2015.
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Peter Schickele has since reduced his concert appearances due to health issues, but continued to schedule live concert performances through 2018.
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Peter Schickele has composed more than 100 original works for symphony orchestra, choral groups, chamber ensemble, voice, television and an animated adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are.
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Peter Schickele was active on the international and North American concert circuit.
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Peter Schickele married the poet Susan Sindall on 27 October 1962.
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Karla Schickele then joined the band Ida, has recorded solo music under the name K Matt Schickele, and is part of the M Shanghai String Band.
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Peter Schickele's brother, David Peter Schickele, was a film director and musician.