HELEN 11/15: As for the continuing experience of PDQ Bach, I was utterly disgusted to play a double fugue yesterday on “How Dry I Am,” met with “You Are My Sunshine,” which ended (ok, I laughed) with a nod to R. Strauss’ Til Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks. Having had a couple of French Horn players on my dorm floor at Peabody, this is an excerpt with which I am much, much too familiar, practically breaking out in hives.
Pray tell, what do others think about while playing through these . . . constructions?