1. Peter Schickele hosted a long-running weekly radio program called Schickele Mix.
18 Facts About Peter Schickele
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Peter Schickele was born on July 17,1935, in Ames, Iowa, to Alsatian immigrant parents.
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Peter Schickele's father, Rainer Schickele, was the son of writer Rene Schickele and was an agricultural economist teaching at Iowa State University.
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In Fargo, the younger Peter Schickele studied composition with Sigvald Thompson of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra.
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Peter Schickele graduated from Fargo Central High School in 1952, then attended Swarthmore College, graduating in 1957 with a degree in music.
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Peter Schickele was the first student at Swarthmore 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 studied composition with Roy Harris and Vincent Persichetti.
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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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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 reduced his concert appearances due to health issues, but continued to schedule live concert performances through 2018.
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Peter Schickele 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 made a brief foray into cinema with the Bruce Dern film Silent Running, for which he composed the musical score and co-wrote the original songs "Silent Running" and "Rejoice in the Sun" with Diane Lampert.
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Peter Schickele was active on the international and North American concert circuit.
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Peter Schickele's brother David Peter Schickele was a film director and musician.
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Peter Schickele died at his home in Bearsville, New York, on January 16,2024, at the age of 88, due to a series of infections that damaged his health.