From the Library: Music with a tongue in its cheek

Today we feature a genre of music that crosses all genres of music: Musical Comedy. Today's programme includes everything from the implicit to the (musically) explicit - from Mozart's Musical Joke KV522 to Tom Lehrer's Poisoning Pigeons in the Park; from Gerard Hoffnung (including his two Music Festivals complete and some of his spoken-word pieces for good measure), his American somewhat-equivalent PDQ Bach (aka Peter Schickele) and Victor Borge to Weird Al Yankovic (although I must admit that my Weird Al collection isn't a patch on that of my colleague Edward Pearse); and even Todd Rundgren. And that's just the beginning.

There's Steampunk (both punk and rap). There are music-hall songs. There's classical and quasi-neo-classical, including the Muffin Men Ensemble playing Frank Zappa (you can't imagine how long I've wanted to play that on thap gump), Apocalyptica playing Metallica on four cellos and Rondellus delivering 14th century interpretations of Black Sabbath. And of course there are Flanders and Swann and the Bonzo Bog Doo-Dah Band. And Christine Lavin. And we wouldn't want to miss the Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise, now, would we?

Although all the music today has a sense of humour, you will experience some wild and wacky transitions during the course of the programme. Keep your ears on.

From the Library is produced by thap gump in conjunction with the Alexandrian Free Library Consortium of Second Life. You can listen to the programme now in-world at http://music.radioriel.org, or click one of the buttons below. Today's programme is presented by Elrik Merlin.

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For more information on the Alexandrian Free Library, current exhibits and the work of Consortium members in general, please visit the Alexandrian Free Library website, or one of their branches in-world
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