The Schickele Mix Online Fan Archive

A production of The Syndication Automat.

I first heard Schickele Mix in the early 1990s on KPRX, an NPR affiliate from Bakersfield, California. By exploring the common threads between classical, jazz and rock music, Peter Schickele brought me a holistic view of how music worked, very different from (and much more interesting than) the rote memorization I was familiar with from piano lessons. Even now, in a world full of educational podcasts like Song Exploder, I haven't found anything quite like Schickele Mix.

The last episode of Schickele Mix was produced in 1999. The show left the air in the mid-2000s, the official program listings were removed from their website in 2021, and Peter Schickele himself passed away in 2024. The gradual disappearance of this groundbreaking program from public consciousness inspired me to create this site, which consolidates all the information I could find about Schickele Mix.

If you happen to have any old tapes or recordings of Schickele Mix, please contact me at leonardr@segfault.org. About 50 episodes have not yet been preserved by fans, and several more only exist in edited or truncated versions.

Podcast

This RSS feed presents all fan-archived episodes of Schickele Mix as a podcast, presented in the order they were initially aired (which differs from production order). This is probably the easiest way to experience the show today. All links are to archived copies of the shows on the Internet Archive.

Metadata dump

This JSON file contains detailed program listings for every episode of Schickele Mix in a structured format. I extracted this data from both official and unofficial sources: primarily the official Schickele Mix website and Mark Maimone's old fan site.

This structured data was used to generate the following program listing. I'm making it available so that no one else has to scrape my web page to get the same data.

List of programs

This is a complete index of the Schickele Mix programs. Program names are displayed in italics if they have no fan-archived recording. Each program name is linked to a detailed playlist, where (if the program has been archived) you can listen to the program and read along using a machine-generated transcript.