Byline: RON EMERY Special to the Times Union
ALBANY -- Albany Pro Musica continued its 2002-03 season with its second subscription concert. This one included humor to laugh away the winter doldrums. Titled ``From the Ridiculous to the Sublime,'' the program juxtaposed music of late Romantics like Rachmaninoff and Bruckner with less serious contemporary choral music, the mere titles of which brought a smile: ``Telemarketing Blues,'' ``Paul and his Chickens'' and ``The Art of the Ground Round'' by the infamous P.D.Q. Bach. known in the real world of composers as irreverent Peter Schickele.
If this was profound choral versus frivolous choral settings, the …
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