Frank Zappa with the Ensemble Modern Photo: screenshot
James Gardner traces a personal path through the vast output and thirty-five year career of composer and guitarist Frank Zappa.
Although best known as a rock musician, Zappa wrote orchestral music from his mid-teens onward after discovering Varèse and Stravinsky.
In this episode, Gardner presents a selection of Zappa's orchestral and other instrumental writing as well as glancing sidelong at his "musicals" 'Thing-Fish' and 'Hunchentoot'
