Journals

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  1. missing issue
  2. Autumn 1979: Well-defined puzzle; tour schedule; Big photo; Flashes in the Pan News; 3 part rounds: Here I am, Tell Me, Canone a 3 voci bozzi
  3. 1980(?): Beethoven's Fifth Mugwump; photo booth photos; Music: (1)Johann Sebastian Bach (2)The Brothers Joad (3)Now I Was Born in Iowa; Crossword
  4. Fall 1980: Newly Published Publications; Gigging on the Go (music & lyrics); Where shall we go this year, dear? Well, we've never been to Muncie, Indiana; A tradition in the tradition of great traditions; Rare indeed is the book
  5. Spring 1981: Employee of the Month...William "Bill"Walters; Hot off the Press; Liebeslieder Polkas
  6. Fall 1981: The News Publication-wise; Variety is the Spice of Life; Nobody believes anything I say; crossword; In every nook, yea, in every cranny of the land shall this noisome music be heard; Two Rounds: You Ask Me How I Feel, When My Daddy Decided; Russ Ryan Posters
  7. Spring 1982: Employee of the Month...John Ferrante; Some Things Never Change; Peter Schickele at Chamber Music North West; Publishing Update
  8. Fall 1982: For the holidays...your own PDQ Bach ski cap; yellow flexi-disc: John Ferrante sings; Photo: The professor tries to find ways to combine keeping fit with making music
  9. Spring 1983: Welcome to issue Number Nine, Number Nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine; crossword; The Charlotte Letter; Extra! extra! no news yet!; Diehards take note
  10. missing issue
  11. Spring 1984: London succumbs to PDQ's Charms; Three PDQ Bach pieces newly published; So it's come to this; Get your pencils ready, but don't hold your breath; crossword
  12. Fall 1984: Recent Publications; Peter Schickele recordings; Another dose of Non-toxic music; A Broadcating Event of Considerable Magnitude; Dona Nobis Pacem (4 part round); Once again into the British breach; Christmas & PDQ Bach: A Happily Married Couple; Many Upcoming PDQ Bach Concerts Upcoming
  13. Spring 1985: PDQ on the road; Grand contest; A Publishing event of considerable magnitude HBB; Woe is the singer (3 part round); Songs in Southern California & Northern New York; reprint of Frank sullivan article which appeared in the New Yorker 1950 for the 200th anniversary of Bach's death
  14. Winter 1985: Results of the Contest (3 part round); In My Experience (4 part round); A Consort of Choral Christmas Carols (lyrics)
  15. Summer 1986: Crossword; How to, Brute?; I came, I Video, I Conquer; If Music (4 part round); Ravel Agency Photos
  16. Winter 1986: Apologia Pro Goof Uppae Sua; Upcoming Performances
  17. Summer 1987: Quotes from grade school essays on Classical Music; Quotes from Toronto News July 26, 1977 (statements on insurance form for car accidents)[editor's note:New Zealand standup comedian Jasper Carrot did a sketch where he basically just read out some of these statements]; Copy of lyrics for Monk's Aria from Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, Here we have an issue (4 part round), crossword puzzle
  18. Winter 1987: Crossword; Tour Schedule; Phone Booth photos; Compositional Activity; Death(s) of John Ferrante and Vincent Persichetti
  19. Summer 1988: Crossword; (More) quotes from grade school essays on classical music; MARIA (3 part round); photos from France; Request for knock knock jokes; Synopsis of Carmen
  20. Fall 1988: Employee of the Month...Dana Kruger; Upcoming New York Concerts Coming Up; Knockers; Attention Avid Collectors; Attention, Concert-goers;
  21. Spring 1989: Several Years Have Flown their loops; Current Activity at the moment; You Heard me, Four Bassoons; Smo Bro
  22. Fall 1989: Poetry Corner; Drawing by Charles Sneider; Travels Greatest Hits; Logosological Breakthrough; Crossword
  23. Spring 1990: Crossword; The Year of the Grammy; Where the Wild Things Are; American Children; Aroma the Benz; the end is near or maybe not
  24. Fall 1990: Auto Clef Humor; Tad Talk; remarks attributed to Eugene Ormady (conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra)
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  26. Spring 1994: FBI file on PS; Signs of our times; Management Interns final examination; Schickele Mix can be heard on these radio Stations (USA listing); crossword
  27. Fall 1995: You Are a Redneck if...; Musicians Math Quiz; How you can tell when it's going to be a rotten day; Music Education; Ten nicknames of works by musicians; actual statements found on insurance forms; New from Ye Olde Recording Studio; Tour Schedule; Crossword
  28. Fall 1996: Recent Publications; Crossword; Schickelean appearances for the first half of 1997; A Plethora! A Cornucopia! Lots of Stuff!; Olive Free Library (picture); All New National Endowment for the Arts (Application for Funding); Best Street Advertisement I've Seen in a While; In Praise of Syntax; Wellisms
  29. Fall 1997: The No Bell, No Prize Awards; Best Investigative Reporting (Folklore Division); Worst Slogan (Chamber of Commerce Division); News Item most worthy of a separate box (Science Division); Best, if least convincing hoax (science division); Best Hollywood biopic (Classical Composer Division); Worst Mixing of Sensory Metaphors (Education Division); So-called Sabbatical; What exactly is , or are, the blues?; For your eyes only, if you have had musical training that is; crossword