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hero of contemporary composers who so desperately - now more than ever - need popular support for their more genuinely modernist efforts. I ask Zappa scholars to find other occasions in his life when Zappa made an equal or greater crossover contribution to the music he said he loved since he was a boy.
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From a longterm Zappa fan, congratulations on the FA status to everybody involved in improving this article. If I had known you were all working so hard on it, I would have offered my help, for what it's worth. But it's a great article and I'm sure that you are all glad to see it get FA on the 15th
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This article just went featured, I guess, because I was editing it for comma errors, but now it's protected. There are many cases where a sentence will have no need for a comma, and has one (like this sentence). There are a few cases where the sentence needs a comma and it lacks one (like this one).
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It is not true that there are no references in my piece. There were none in the first version of the paragraph, but there have been no fewer than one such note in all recent versions; there are now two. I hope it is not thought that program notes are insufficient references. Program notes have
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Lame Name wants me to believe that the article should not be included because, as he puts it, "Zappa was never a notable orchestral conductor." This is irrelevant; it really misses the point. Zappa was notable enough to lead members of three of the best orchestras in the country in an event that
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I agree that it is a great picture. I think, however, that the current "main" picture is better. It is mainly for "technical" reasons: The "main" picture is always aligned to the right. Therefore, a picture where he looks to the right makes him look "out of the page". In the current "main" picture,
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I'll dig into the sources later, but St. Mary's in 1963 sounds right for his conductorial debut. Even if St. Mary's never happened (thus defying reality as we know it), Frank's work with the 20-piece Grand Wazoo band in
September 1972 or the "Orchestral Favorites" shows of 1975 would probably count
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Zappa conducted quite competently in a clear and un-choreographed manner, well suited to getting good results from contemporary scores under their usual circumstances of under-rehearsal and production constraints. He was well-liked by the players, and graciously donated his fee back to the SFCMP,
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The Varese/Webern concert was a major milestone not only in Zappa's life, but in the history of any and all classical-pop crossover efforts. It was an outreach program unlike any other: there need be no apologies, qualifiers, or compromises. It was the highest point in Zappa's achievement as a
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Since Zappa never had a hit above 32 on the charts, it could also be claimed that he was not notable pop musician either. But if Elvis had conducted an orchestra, no one would wonder whether his effort was "notable." It would be notable by definition. So with Frank Zappa. This incident is
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To answer in point of fact about whether Zappa was "notable," Judith Cline, who sang under him in the
Offrandes, is a Full Professor and university Department head. Nobody questions whether a full professor is "notable" in her field, and she sang UNDER Zappa. But quantifying "notability" is,
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Zappa was a hero not only to pop iconoclasts but to classical composers, who were grateful to him for faithfully championing one of their one. Zappa had his own nomenclature for Varese, whom he called the GLC - the
Greatest Living Composer. This alone should suggest that when Frank finally
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Conducting debut was probably at Mount St. Mary's
College on May 19, 1963. When did he call VarĆØse āthe GLCā - given that VarĆØse died in 1965? This article mentions VarĆØse in the second paragraph of the introduction so is hardly selling him short. If the ZFT ever get around to releasing
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Judith Cline was the soprano soloist in the
Offrandes. The idea for the concert had come to Jean-Louis LeRoux from his assistant Christopher Fulkerson, who wrote the letter inviting Mr. Zappa to participate in the planned fundraiser for the SFCMP. The musicians, mostly players from the
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As I said, it went relatively smoothly. A few minor issues were actually caught by som alert editors. I think the article is in great shape as of now. And judging from the slowness of the page yesterday, a lot have been reading into Zappa yesterday. That I am happy for.Ā :-)
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This is a problem in most
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orchestras, found Frank to be perfectly up to the task of conducting difficult contemporary classical music, and extraordinarily clear minded and diplomatic in rehearsal. The program included the first public broadcast of the Varese
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The story about LOOK Magazine is folklore, as explained in detail (fact & fiction) in Greg Russo's "Cosmik Debris. The collected history and improvisations of Frank Zappa" (Crossfire
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Apparently the 'References' section can only contain items that are referenced in the actual article... which sounds OK to me. But what about a section that lists all books, articles, whatever, ever written about FZ?
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To relegate the event to the Varese article is to bury it back in the same obscurity that the effort itself was trying to remedy. It needs to be in the Zappa article. Zappa fans need to be able to find it.
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Crazy! You work it up to an FA. Have it featured as TFA - "the best articles in
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Several authors can stand up against Miles. Instead of calling it 'Bibliography', we could call it 'Further reading' or something... BTW: even Miles has 'Bibliography' and 'Further reading' sections is his
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I have no idea. It seems like anon IPs can edit and has done so during the day. But the page have been doing quite well today. Not much vandalism compared to what I have seen other times for TFAs.--
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much more significant in the history of music than when Frank
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I have been trying to add a paragraph about Frank's actual conducting of the music of Varese, and it keeps being "reverted." This is unfair to one of the most significant days of Frank's life.
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Berlioz. In any case the SFCMP note in question is available from the SFCMP, and will be online in a PDF in less than three weeks.
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That is why every editor must be careful in adding to the article. Perhaps you can add your material to another article, or start your own. Regards, ā
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it will be a very good day. If this one off concert were to be mentioned in the article (without all the unverifiable tittle-tattle) perhaps the
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