Mixed on Schickele

My wife and I disagree over Peter Schickele.  I think that it's fascinating to learn how Camille Saint-Saens disguised the Dies Irae in the Danse Macabre by changing the key and the emphasis.  I enjoy listening to his off the wall compositions when they help illustrate a practice such as a double bass line in eighteenth century composition.  (I like these explanations especially because, despite being the son of a piano teacher, I am generally woefully ignorant about music.)  My wife, on the other hand, can't stand Schickele's cornball humor, bad jokes, lame puns, and relentless self-aggrandizement.  Her comment, "A lot of education is deadly dull, but Schickele is unusual in being actively annoying."
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