MEET THE EDITORS

PETER CENITI hails from a small fishing village in Calabria.  As  a youth of small means he displayed  uncanny musical aptitude by designing miniature instruments out of octopus larvae.  Later he studied the triangle.  The family import/export business eventually led him to Germany where he found himself, quite unexpectedly, at the epicenter of the Ofterdingen Phenomenon.  Ceniti disappeared, under controversial circumstances, in the spring of 2004.

PELLE BONO CARIDAD gained a measure of international fame as a soccer player in South America.  While he vacationed in Europe after World Cup competition, circumstances conspired to change the direction of his career, impelling him to renounce both celebrity status and its monetary rewards.  Unhampered by a complete lack of formal musical training, the ebullient Latino forged for himself, in a matter of months, an international scholarly reputation in the sphere of Ofterdingen studies second to none.  Bono too is
currently missing.

PABLO COOKIE, originally Juan-Pablo de la Cucaracha, studied the cello in his early years in his native Spain, as well as ballroom dancing.  The Gesellschaft’s senior member, Cookie boasts a distinguished list of publications, mostly in Old Icelandic.  He is considered something of an expert on the music of Peter Cornelius.  His hobbies include baking, gardening and Indian martial arts.  Cookie recently disappeared looking for Bono and Ceniti.  He was last seen in Russia, just outside St. Petersburg.

PIETRO KENNEDY, the son of Irish and Italian immigrants to the U.S., came to music scholarship by a circuitous route.  As a young man he served in the Navy, the Army and even the Merchant Marines.  Later he worked in New York City as a standup comic and substitute teacher.  He met the other members of the Gesellschaft quite by accident at a brew-fest in Munich in 2004.  Kennedy enjoys making music by whistling down into empty bottles.  His favorite composer is Johann David Heinichen.

PELOG SLENDEROSO was born on the little Indonesian island of Komodo where he learned to scramble up palm trees to avoid the local giant lizards.  Slenderoso, a devout Hindu, enjoys fondu  and rhubarb, and plays a little rebab.  He brings to the Ofterdingen studies a dimension of cross-cultural awareness.  Currently his tripartite existence is divided between Muenster, Jakarta and Parsippany, New Jersey (where he teaches “yogut”).

MAHAMADOU DAFFE , originally Domenico Zipoli,  was born in Tuscany in 1688.  (The original family name was Zepoli; they changed it to distinguish themselves from the famous pastry.)    Daffe's adventures are recounted in some detail in The Fountain of Youth (see  Publications).  He studied composition with  Allessandro Scarlatti and Bernardo Pasquini.  Daffe's works have appeared pseudonymously under the names Cornelius Funfholler and (more recently) Ichigo Scracci.   

VERONICA  C.   TESTAGUNA, the first female admitted to the Gesellschaft's ranks, has cultivated a special relationship with each of her colleagues (though she is emphatically "pro-Bono").  She holds degrees in theology, icthyology,  paleontology and fashion design.  Her  first book of poetry,  In Prehistoric Times I was a Fish,  is scheduled for publication in early November of 2099.