‘Opus 5’: Young Frank Zappa’s early avant-garde orchestral music, 1963
I en inspelning från den 19 maj 1963 gjord för den amerikanska radiostationen KPFK hör vi här Frank Zappa tillsammans med The Pomona Valley Symphony Orchestra framföra sitt verk Opus 5
‘Opus 5’: Young Frank Zappa’s early avant-garde orchestral music, 1963
“The next piece that we’re going to play . . . Maybe I should tell you what we were doing . . . The, the signals that we were giving, I’ll explain to you very simply: This means ‘free improvisation’ and the finger signals told the performers which of the fragments they were to uh, play at any given…