Welcome, Liz, to the formerly thriving Yahoo P.D.Q. Bach Group, which
has dwindled down to a few dozen of the faithful & hardly any new
message traffic. The heyday of this Yahoo group is in the past,
sorry to say.

Not only that, my local public radio station no longer airs the
Schickele Mix re-runs. If your station has also bailed out, all is
not lost, however. On the Internet, you can go to...

http://www.publicradiofan.com/

...to find out which stations are broadcasting Schickele Mix over the
Internet, & when, & then you can listen to old shows through your
computer speakers.

Unfortunately, there are no more new Schickele Mix shows. The
program has been out of production for a few years now & will not go
back into production, according to the professor.

I have lots & lots of Schickele Mix episodes on tape, including all
the re-runs that have been aired lately. It irks me that the
schedule of Schickele Mix re-runs so far has not included many (if
any) of the very earliest shows (#1 through #50, approximately).

I never heard those very early installments because I didn't find out
about Schickele Mix till I accidentally tuned in on my way from horn
club rehearsal & was instantly hooked on the professor's weekly radio
offering. By then the series was nearly through its first year, & of
course I missed every one of the shows that aired before my initial
accidental exposure to Shickele Mix. So even though those very early
shows are old, they're new to me because I've still never heard them.

I still tune in to Schickele Mix, via Internet, as often as I can,
with a tape recorder hooked up to the computer audio card, just in
case one of those so-old-they're-new-to-me installments might come
along. I'd be chagrined it that happened & I missed it.

My only other hope of filling in my personal Schickele Mix blanks is
to arrange a tape swap with somebody who started tuning in before I
did & who has those first 50 shows in his or her personal archive.
So far I have not been successful along those lines. Apparently we
Schickele Mix fans are a rare breed. Those with all the old programs
on tape are even rarer.

(Then again, nobody who has a complete tape collection of all the
Schickele Mix shows would have any need to swap. So I need to make
contact with somebody who has all the oldest shows but for some
reason missed out on some of the later shows. That way, we both
would have incentive to swap tapes.)

I hope you will stay in touch with the group. You never know when
something interesting & fun might come up.

-- Alan Cole, McLean, Virginia, USA.
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I don't get "Schickele Mix" on Nebraska NPR anymore (is it still on
the air?), so I've been waaaaay out of touch.