from Iphagenia in Brooklyn (hazy memory here)
…she saw her brother Orestes, was being chas-ed…
…by the amenities!
Also one of Peter Schickele’s own works (that is, he presents it as his own, not P.D.Q. Bach’s) that’s a string of pieces stolen from other people’s work, ranging from Beethoven symphonies to modern showtunes.
I think you’re talking about Eine Kleine Nichtmusik…
I mentioned this thread to a friend. She immediately began to sing (from Iphigenia in Brooklyn):
'Who knows what it is to be running? Only he who is running knows. Running knows, running knows, running knows."
And from the Seasonings:
“Onions I have, but savory I have not.”
“Then you are an unsavory rapscallion!”
Oh God, make the pain stop.
Fifteen Iguana
That’s the EUMENEDIES, another name for the Fates.
Gah. My brain is on vacation. The Eumedies are the Furies, not the Fates. Snakes in the hair, the whole nine yards…
The line in “Iphigenia in Brooklyn” is “Amenities”. It’s a pun.
“And all about her fish were dying,
Dying … dying,
And yet … in death … alive”
His commentary at the beginning of A Bach Portrait:
“I wanted to do for Bach what Copland did for Lincoln, what Beethoven did for Wellington, what Tchaikovsky did for Little Russians, and what Richard Strauss did for himself.”
Introducing his Last Tango in Bayreuth:
“Chopin{?} once remarked that the only thing better than the sound of one guitar was two guitars. Building on that, what could be better than the sound of two guitars? Four bassoons.”