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Ojai Music Festival Features Music of Frank Zappa Performed by Ensemble Modern

Jun. 09, 2010

On June 11 the Ojai Music Festival presents a full day of the music of Frank Zappa, including both an afternoon symposium session and an evening-length concert of his music. The Ensemble Modern, conducted by Brad Lubman, will perform over a dozen Zappa compositions, with selections from Zappa's THE YELLOW SHARK (performed in 1992 by Frank Zappa with Ensemble Modern) and from ENSEMBLE MODERN Plays FRANK ZAPPA: Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions, recorded at their own expense in 2002. The concert also includes two works by Edgard Varèse, a kindred spirit in musical experimentation and Mr. Zappa's favorite composer since boyhood.

The afternoon symposium on June 11 features: Gail Zappa, wife of Frank Zappa; Ian Underwood, woodwind and keyboard player and early member of The Mothers of Invention; guitar legend Steve Vai, a member of Zappa's band in the 1980s; Todd Yvega, computer music specialist, Synclavier assistant and software developer for Zappa; and Dietmar Wiesner, a founding member of Ensemble Modern.

Find out more on the music of Frank Zappa by visiting www.zappa.com and www.schott-music.com.

Learn more on the Ojai Festival at www.ojaifestival.org.

Frank Zappa
Dog Breath Variations/Uncle Meat
for chamber orchestra
arranged by Ali N. Askin (1992)
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6'

Bebop Tango
for chamber orchestra
arranged by Ali N. Askin (1992)
pic.1(afl,clav).1(marac).1(tri).tsax(cym).1(jingle bells)-2.2.1.btbn.1-3perc-gtr.mand.hp.pno-2vn(1.agogo 2.vibraslap).va(metal guiro).vc(large guiro).db(small cym)
4'

Revised Music for a Low Budget Orchestra
for orchestra
arranged by Ali N. Askin and Bruce Fowler (1992)
1(afl).1(ca).1.bcl(tsax).1-1.1.flugelhn.1.1-3perc-egtr.ebgtr.mand.hp.pno-2vn(elec vn).2va.2vc
8'

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