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

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 his composer profile.

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)
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4'

Revised Music for a Low Budget Orchestra
for orchestra
arranged by Ali N. Askin and Bruce Fowler (1992)
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8'