In the second of three National Symphony concerts titled "Serious Fun," yesterday's matinee was devoted to America's premier classical-music humorist, Peter Schickele. Humor in classical music is exquisitely hard to do, and only a handful have done it successfully. The bar was set exceedingly high...

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