Zappa Overture

Frank Zappa - Overture - Yellow Shark Ensemble Moderne

[@namcat53]

I'm crying because I'm thinking of my beautiful art teacher in Delray Beach Florida 1966-67 who turned us on to Freak Out after she let us paint anything on a strip of 16mm film, randomly spliced it together, turned the lights off, turned the projector on and played Freak Out which had just been released. Our minds were completely and wonderfully blown. Ever since I have loved Frank Zappa. This is magnificent. Thanks.

[@gregorytrotter6657]

My friend and I had a similar experience. Walking through a popular department store around about 1968 or so, we JUST HAPPENED to walk by the record player they used to pipe music for all the shoppers to shop by. Having one of my periodic strokes of genius, I ran to the record department and got a print of the Mothers' latest "hit" album. Back at the record player, I stealthily replaced the shopping music with Zappa. What a laugh we had, nonchalantly walking out, as Brown Shoes Don't Make it terrorized young and old alike. I distinctly remember a member of the staff running by us, a look of horror on her otherwise pretty face.

[@namcat53]

@@gregorytrotter6657 Good for you!

[@jwc3o2]

@@gregorytrotter6657 a similar-but-different experience in a record store in a mall in Calgary: Zappa In New York had just come out & i was looking at it with obvious interest & the nice girl behind the counter chirped "would you like to hear it?!" & stripped the cellophane off & threw on Titties & Beer. there were, of course, cranked speakers in the store but there were also speakers pumping this out into the mall itself & everything was fine until Bozzio yells "blow it out your ass motorcycle man!" & the manager came storming out from the back offce to rip the thing off the turntable, order me outta the store & start yelling at the cashier, who'd been having a good time until horrified by this harpy starting in on her. culture clash!

[@tomn9094]

Wait
im going to do that tonight cmon over

[@raspberry1440kb]

@@jwc3o2 Did you get to buy the record first?

[@lassekristoffersen5906]

Not a day without listening Frank.

[@howieo6666]

Frank said more with an instrumental then most say with words!!

[@mr.alabamaci5510]

È stato il miglior compositore musicista del secolo scorso.

[@mickdarabuka7778]

Beautiful. Just beautiful. To contemplate death in such an aesthetic, majestic, melancholic manner. When the world lost Zappa it lost a true genius composer.

[@MrDXRamirez]

No we did not lose Frank. Zappa's consciousness is alive forever in his music. But I am with you on your sentiment...we lost the body not the mind.

[@namcat53]

@@MrDXRamirez Right.

[@expandingknowledge8269]

I love Franks direction, all so subtle...Sure miss ya Frank RIP.

[@whiskeyriver4322]

........... and yet, the void he left, remains eerily empty. Silent to all the senses he once invigorated.

[@ER-me1ii]

Wow. I just miss Frank. Always will.

[@iantoau]

this is the best Zappa piece because it contains so much of Zappa... and more...

[@winstonsmith9533]

Definitive Zappa, for sure. 🌠

[@rhythmfield]

Genius - and one hell of a band there too - I think this was Frank’s favorite interpretation of his music, as I understand it

[@tdubveedub]

I saw him with the post-Mother's group as a teenager and didn't appreciate his genius. Since then I've grown musically and now lament that I wasn't paying attention back then. I am now.

[@rickmerlotti7720]

Wow. Didn't know this existed. First time hearing it. This seems like his overture to Death. I doubt Frank believed in an afterlife, so he is brooding about mortality (aren't we all). Wonderful to see him conducting this last opus and read his enigmatic face as he experiences this last hurrah. I have to listen to this some more, but on first hearing it seemed beautiful and terrible, a brilliant musician's attempt to put his death struggle to music, to create some art out of his tragic, early death. How I miss his voice and his music these days!

[@notreallydavid]

Terrific, isn't it? And I hear Civilization Phaze III in exactly the way you describe.

[@johntabacco]

Not sure that he did not believe in the afterlife. All of Civilization Phase 3 is covered in hereafter Egyptian symbols. Now, did he have any say in this art work? I don't know.

[@MaxFruchtman]

Kinda struck me as classic Frank irony to name this super difficult, atonal thing the "Overture" to the evening

[@jwc3o2]

@@MaxFruchtman it's called "Dio Fa" on "Civilization Phaze III"

[@olgunbilginer7592]

This iş the Door to future music
İ love it RİP Frank

[@LucaCongia-mv9nu]

Bellissimo. Non conoscevo questo brano. Grazie Frank!

[@jean-francoispayette92]

Sublime Frank

[@walterinzoli7347]

Il più grande musicista del xx secolo

[@Royale_with_Cheeze]

Frank endeavored throughout his musical life to get proper performances of his orchestral works. As well, he demanded a lot from his Rocking Teenage Combos, but they had the advantage of playing the music on tour night after night, as well as months of rehearsals prior to touring to get it down. Frank never had enough time and resources to prepare the various orchestras to play his demanding and tricky music to his vision and standards, until Ensemble Modern came along and approached him to compose music for them to play.
Not only did they have enough rehearsal time to get it down, they paid HIM for the privilege.
He finally got the best performance of his orchestral music. Sad that he had to wait until the end of his life to get that satisfaction, but at least he, and we the audience and fans of his music, did get to experience his music as he meant it.

[@michaosanna]

i miss him, just because he was one of the greatest ever! Miss his invention and him as a very cool person.

[@simonpepper9721]

Shades of Varese. Love yellow shark.

[@soldtobediers]

There are artists who'll wrest us up & place us into themselves.
These are the One's who'll continue wresting us up...
Even beyond their appointed rests in peace. -gilpin 2821

[@MrDXRamirez]

It is remarkable what Frank does in this composition, truly a piece classical art.
“Present Day Composer Refuses to Die”, FZ

[@Royale_with_Cheeze]

Frank himself would tell you to attribute that quote to Edgard Varese.

[@Ashanath-Music]

One of my favorite zappa compositions. Got my subscription ❤

[@JonnyPyscho]

Bring the band on down behind me boys!

[@user-hy9jh9rt8g]

Триумф великого композитора!

[@paolamarin2677]

Love Zappa!

[@gentle_goy23432]

Красивая увертюра , Фрэнк. Спасибо

[@paulbismuth3256]

a kind of Mozart requiem in century XXth

[@ucchiHangUp]

Great !!!!

[@larryn1875]

Truly and uncommonly brilliant!

[@LeahsLover]

So abstract yet so meaningful!

[@tomn9094]

Bravo Maestro 👏!

[@melcowrong5889]

Nice. That Zappa sound, love it.

[@not_emerald]

This is new to me. I love the album but never heard this before.

[@didierbarrollier4138]

Merci d'avoir accès à toutes les musiques

[@bikingfencer]

whelp - this is for those who think Zappa didn't want his music played.

[@hiatusfromtheworld]

The sunglasses were written in to the part.

[@pariaheep]

[@jean-francoispayette92]

Genius

[@eduardorodriguezban603]

Zappa, una vez más, nos sorprende... Bravo!

[@thearmchairspacemanOG]

au.. well.

[@vernonchelski7385]

Reminds me of the music from the Naked Lunch movie.

[@danmartinazzi]

Sublime

[@pabloghio8221]

Yellow shark gran obra de Frank

[@patrickpeeters2637]

...the present day composer refuses to die...need more proof ?

[@m1losk1]

king crimson esque

[@antoniobgomes8774]

Zappa fala por si , faltou a sequência deste concerto.
Publiquem que a música agradece.

[@hafidimloul640]

OYER OYER, VOICI POURQUOI ON L'APPELLE LE MAESTRO, IL VOUS EN MET PLEIN LA GUEULE (PAS VRAI LES DÉTRACTEURS !..C'EST, RESTE LE MEILLEUR

[@murderhill1947]

Zappa following in Varese's footsteps I think. I managed to own a Varese album. I think it was Integrales but that would have been fifty year ago. I can't remember any more. This is fairly reminiscent of that composition. Does Frank acknowledge Varese with this work?

[@thecannabisguru]

I think there is an interview somewhere where he mentions Varese

[@PinoCoppolaBoxkeller]

zappa was early influenced by Varese and that was one of his first records he listen to..rip frank

[@Matty88K]

Frank cited Varèse as his earliest and most important influence. Much of Frank's work applied the principles of Musique Concrète, a concept pioneered by Varèse amongst other composers.

[@groovyjazzbeats61]

WOW. Wonder if Zappa ever showed any interested in film score music? He would have certainly created more masterpieces! What a loss for humanity!

[@tonybrewer]

Check out "Run Home Slow" (1965), a pre-Mothers of Invention film Z scored. It's a weird movie (a western!) written by his high school English teacher, and bits of several Zappa/MOI compositions are in it.
th-cam.com/video/soVPv4mP_9M/w-d-xo.html

[@jwc3o2]

@@tonybrewer also "The World's Greatest Sinner" (1962, Timothy Carey)

[@teedub9295]

Run Home Slow is a bit scary western. And don't forget 200 Motels.

[@jwc3o2]

@@teedub9295 ...& "The True Story of 2oo Motels" & "Uncle Meat The Movie" & "Baby Snakes" & "The Amazing Mr.Bickford"

[@TheRudySchwartzProject]

Outrage at Valdez:
th-cam.com/video/OAAoAjY7ysU/w-d-xo.html

[@Sortirai]

Enfin

[@gregt5996]

Look at his expression as he conducts the musicians ,the level of respect for them and no pretentiousness on his part. I hear he was a driven man and you had to work hard to make the cut. A truly talented and humble man who hated the status quo and knew how to show his fangs when called upon.

[@John_13_35]

Got to be the Ensemble Modern. Am I wrong?

[@austinhardt7602]

Where can you find this live concert

[@m2kno1]

Why did u cut the first three minutes ?????????

[@4amsolo]

where can i obtain a copy of this?

[@robotcalus]

His album Civilization Phaze III, there are parts of this performance in the song "Dio Fa"

[@4amsolo]

@@robotcalus thanks, I have that album but was hoping to find this in full somewhere. Thanks for the reply.

[@tvlijacob5098]

Is this on an album. If so where can I get it

[@delpage1]

No it's not on the album.

[@gamehedgehog9434]

​@@delpage1 I don't know what album you're thinking of (yellow shark?) but "Overture" can be found on "ZAPPA Original motion picture soundtrack deluxe". That one is a different and longer recording, but it's the same piece.

[@delpage1]

@@gamehedgehog9434 Hnmm. I was thinking of the Yellow Shark. Thanks for the tip.

[@dennisst.pierre210]

Not bad for a guy whose name starts with Z

[@ItsaStringThing]

I have to admit, I didn't get it.

[@jawadkazmi8856]

Yes you do U watched it, heard it get it mon?! Still they deny there souls expression of Bueaty Love and the bodys mortality not infinitys soul. Forever is soo soon, after this life Is- Eturnity. ❤👳😎😂💫💥☝boycot your ego

[@neilslade]

A lot of Frank's music is intellectual exercise, and to my ears without- well, like Ellington said, it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. I'm afraid most of Frank's symphonic music strikes me this way, with rare exception. And I DO like a lot of his music.

[@mojooftheg5961]

Wow! 2 people didn't like this? Must have been a couple of democrats.

[@namcat53]

🦠

[@kevinthornton4495]

Before the syncalvire computer Frank used a #2 pencil ✏️ and a 12' 📏 on a music score 🎼 sheet sence he was 14yrs old the liberty was his conservatory where he learned all the ranges of orchestral instruments and dynamic markings