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A woman accessing the PDQ database with an early laptop in 1987. Physician Data Query (PDQ) is the US National Cancer Institute's (NCI) comprehensive cancer database. [1] [2] It contains peer-reviewed summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, and supportive care, and complementary and alternative medicine; a registry of more than 6,000 open and 17,000 closed cancer ...
Schickele's works attributed to P. D. Q. Bach often incorporate comical rearrangements of well-known works of other composers. The works use instruments not normally used in orchestras, such as the bagpipes, slide whistle, kazoo, and fictional or experimental instruments such as the pastaphone (made of uncooked manicotti), [10] tromboon, [11] hardart, lasso d'amore, [12] and left-handed sewer ...
The revamped PDQ took the honor, dubious to some, of replacing the venerable Concentration on NBC's daytime schedule at 10:30 a.m. (9:30 Central) on March 26, 1973. CBS , whose The Price Is Right led the 15-year-old game to its end, trotted that show off to afternoons and placed its new word-association game The $10,000 Pyramid at 10:30/9:30 ...
The following is a list of works by P. D. Q. Bach, a fictitious Bach family member, the alter ego of composer Peter Schickele.The first section lists, in alphabetical order, those works which have been recorded, are listed in the annotated catalogue of P. D. Q. Bach music in The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach, and/or are listed on the Theodore Presser website.
PDQ Food Stores, a former chain of convenience stores in Wisconsin; PDQ Chocolate, a drink mix; PDQ terminal, to process payment card transactions; Oil rigs with production, drilling and quarters, e.g. Thunder Horse PDQ
Peter Schickele was born on July 17, 1935, in Ames, Iowa, [1] [4] to Alsatian immigrant parents. His father, Rainer Schickele (1905, Berlin – 1989, Berkeley, California), was the son of writer René Schickele and was an agricultural economist teaching at Iowa State University. [5]
Dedication; Preface; Preface to the English Language Edition; Foreword; Introduction; Author's Note; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; I. P.D.Q. Bach's Background ...
The New York Pick-Up Ensemble, Professor Peter Schickele, conductor; John Ferrante, bargain counter tenor; Harris Poor, basso blotto; Ransom Wilson and Diva Goodfriend-Koven, tape recorders, hand flutes, corrugahorn, nose flutes