Yay! I spies a Basset Nose! And a lovely Basset Backside too. My basset started nose-vember by being bitten by a wasp on his nose; traumatic! And twice as much nose….

Fantastic writing

Theresa and AuntieMame- I am now compelled to revisit and upgrade my PDQ knowledge. Thanks!

NOMTOM, marry me. You can come live in my familys castle in zee country. Vee have zee best vine…..

My favorite PDQ is “The Abduction of Figaro.” Any opera that opens with “Found a Peanut” is A-OK with me.

Great poem…great pics!

@Katrina: Schickele was a Juilliard classmate of the head of my undergrad music program, and he would come to our Saint Cecilia Days dressed up like St. Cecilia.

To here all of “Iphegenia”
Go here:
http://www.imeem.com/people/QZlzyps/music/4fOS-w63/chamber_orchestra_cantata_iphigenia_in_brooklyn_s_53162/

Theresa, can he be my friend, too?
I’ve never heard the whole Iphigenia…much to my dismay.

PDQ came to Southern CT State University (my alma mater) in New Haven and I thought my laughterer would fall off. Oh, maybe PBS will wise-up and have him for a fund raiser! Big buckaroonies there, let me tell ya! You and I will each give $2, and, oh, yeah…

Fan-frigging-tastic poem NTMTOM.
I think someone else may have said that too. . . .

Katrina:
“And he cried out in ANGUISH:
‘Oh ye gods, who knows what it is to be lurking? Only he who is lurking nose.
Lurking nose
Lurking nose . . .”

Iphigenia in Brooklyn is my absolute favorite– I especially love the hemiola cadences in the first mvt. ALSO, the first Bargain Counter Tenor is a friend of mine.;)