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"I used to love putting little black dots on music paper," wrote Frank Zappa in his 1989 autobiography ... lifetime be a classical album when The Yellow Shark hit record stores 25 years ago ...
Frank Zappa would have turned 70 this December ... of 19 short compositions and arrangements that formed “The Yellow Shark,” the last album released during Zappa’s lifetime.
Last weekend brought bliss for Frank Zappa fans in the shape ... With the evening’s main event, a performance of Zappa’s orchestral album Yellow Shark, the orchestra and its conductor, Hugh ...
Q: What was the initial appeal of Frank Zappa to you as an artist and a documentary ... Q: The final part of the film portrays “The Yellow Shark,” one of his more challenging orchestral ...
Frank Zappa was one of the most innovative and ... debuting his work The Yellow Shark to rousing success in Europe despite being very ill. Zappa appeared quite sick in the final television ...
Orchestra 2001 will present “Zappa’s Radical Classical Roots” on Sunday, April 22 at World Café Live, and “Celebrating Frank Zappa’s The Yellow Shark” on Saturday, April 28 at the Fillmore.
He may like our music,” proclaimed Frank Zappa in 1967, on the eve of the release of the ... made up 1984’s album of the same name being a case in point), but The Yellow Shark isn’t one of them.
There were many Frank Zappas: guitar virtuoso ... (An album recording of the concerts was released under the name The Yellow Shark in November 1992, one month before his death.) ...
This April, he’ll serve as the guest lecturer for a performance of Frank Zappa's “The Yellow Shark” by Orchestra 2001 in Philadelphia. All of this bodes well for the future of Zappa studies ...
When he pops up on my screen to discuss Zappa, the first documentary with ... shot of him sitting on that case backstage after the Yellow Shark concert in Germany. He’s dying of cancer, but ...
It must have been maddening for Frank Zappa to work with rock musicians ... of “G-Spot Tornado” appears on the 1993 album The Yellow Shark. The ensemble of humans performing this supposedly ...
The first hit album of Frank Zappa‘s career ... “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow” was also Zappa’s first single to make it into the Hot 100, making it up to Number 86.