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WGUC Celebrates April Fools

April Fools on WGUC In sixteenth-century France, the start of the new year was observed on April first. Then in 1562, Pope Gregory introduced a new calendar which had the new year beginning on January first. There were some people who hadn't heard or didn't believe the change in the date, so they continued to celebrate New Year's Day on April first. Others played pranks and tricks on those people. They became known as "April Fools".

Frank Johnson presents some of the funniest interpretations of classical music from Monty Python, Bugs Bunny, PDQ Bach and more. Remember, you can always hear the real thing every day on WGUC 90.9, Cincinnati's Classical Public Radio. Happy April Fools' Day!

Part 1:
	Flanders & Swan "Ill Wind" CD: At the Drop of Another Hat EMI CDS7974642 Peter Sellers "The Trumpet Volunteer" LP: The Best of Peter Sellers (out of print) Monty Python "Royal Festival Hall Concert" CD: The Instant Monty Python CD Collection box set #7243 8 39820 28
Part 2:
	Danny Kaye "Tchaikovsky" LP: The Best of Danny Kaye (out of print) Anna Russell "The French Horn" CD: Anna Russell, Encore Sony 60316 Andy Griffith "Opera Carmen" CD: What It Is, Is CEMA S22-18492
Part 3:
	Victor Borge 1999 Interview at WGUC Victor Borge Mozart Opera by Borge CD: Victor Borge Live! Sony 48482 What's Opera, Doc? Richard Wagner's Ring cycle CD: Bugs on Broadway Merrie Melodies/Warner Brothers 9 26484-2
Part 4:
	Spike Jones and His City Slickers Rossini's "William Tell Overture" LP: out of print PDQ Bach "Minuet Militaire" CD: PDQ Bach: 1712 Overture & Other Musical Assaults Telarc 80210 Florence Foster Jenkins "Selection by Mozart" CD: The Glory of the Human Voice BMG Classics 61175 Portsmouth Sinfonia Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra LP: The Pourtsmouth Sinfonia Transatlantic Records #TRA275 (out of print) Daniel Barski Bach Aria CD: Free-Reed Odyssey DB3305 Jim Self Tuba Tchaikovsky CD: The Big Stretch BHR-106-2
Part 5:
	PDQ Bach "New Horizons in Music Appreciation: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony" (Schickele/Dennis) CD: The Wurst of P.D.Q. Bach with Professor Peter Schickele Vanguard 72015 Spike Jones "Dance of the Hours" (Ponchielli) LP: Musical Depreciation Revue RCA/Rhino 71574 Allan Sherman, Narrator; with the Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler "The End of a Symphony" (Various Composers/Sherman) CD: Peter & the Commissar Collectors' Choice Music 488 (originally RCA)
Part 6:
	Eddie Foy, Jr., and movie cast from "Bells Are Ringing" "It's a Simple Little System" (Comden & Green/Styne) LP: Bells Are Ringing Capitol 92060 Hoffnung Music Festival "Concerto Popolare" (Various Composers/arr. Reizenstein) CD: Hoffnung's Music Festivals EMI 63302 John Dankworth (Narrator and Conductor) with the London Symphony Orchestra "Further Experiments with Mice" (Dankworth) CD: Crossing Over the Bridge MCA 5932