Report from Hoople: P.D.Q. Bach on the Air was released on Vanguard Records in 1967. It is set up as a radio broadcast of the music of P.D.Q. Bach with Professor Peter Schickele as the DJ.
In addition to P.D.Q. Bach music, the record includes "New Horizons in Music Appreciation", a piece in which Schickele and Robert Dennis do a play-by-play on a performance of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as if it were a sports game.
On the back cover, Schickele thanks "members of his graduate seminar in Accidental Originality" including future famous composer Philip Glass.
Performers Professor Peter Schickele, conductor, announcer, worm (an instrument) I Virtuosi di Hoople John Ferrante, bargain counter tenor Robert Dennis, announcer Heinrich Seifenblase, piano Emmanuel Pedal, four-handed organist
Radio Log Bright and Early Show Track 1 (8:12) 00:00 Signature theme (from Diverse Ayres on Sundrie Notions, S. 99 44/100) 00:16 Intro 01:34 Echo Sonata for Two Unfriendly Groups of Instruments, S. 9999 04:52 Tag 05:00 Station break 05:18 Commercial: "Do You Suffer?" (from Diverse Ayres on Sundrie Notions, S. 99 44/100)
Track 2 (11:53) 08:10 New Horizons in Music Appreciation: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (Schickele, with Robert Dennis) 16:58 Time 17:23 Weather 18:17 News
Track 3 (5:04) 20:00 Intro 20:44 Traumarai for Unaccompanied Piano, S. 13 24:11 Station break 24:26 Tag 24:44 Signature theme
Dull and Late Show Track 4 (9:27) 00:00 Signature theme 00:40 Intro 01:09 Schleptet in E major, S. 0 Molto Larghissimo – Allegro Boffo Menuetto con Brio ma senza Trio Adagio Saccharino Yehudi Menuetto Presto Hey Nonny Nonnio 08:55 Tag 09:22 Station break
Track 5 (7:22) 09:26 What's My Melodic Line? (featuring works by Archangelo Spumoni, fictitious composer) 14:30 Time 15:03 News
Track 6 (7:53) 16:45 Intro 17:26 Fugue in C minor (Fuga Vulgaris from the Toot Suite for Calliope Four Hands, S. 212°) 20:11 Tag 20:42 Station break 20:46 What's Happening in Home Economics (Beethoven's Revenge, containing a small selection from the middle of the first movement of Symphony No. 3 "Eroica") 21:34 Commercial: "If You Have Never" (from Diverse Ayres on Sundrie Notions, S. 99 44/100) 22:40 Sign-off 23:34 Signature theme
Sources Report from Hoople: P.D.Q. Bach On The Air, schickele.com