Name: The Yellow Shark
Start: 2022-03-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-03-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Milton Court Concert Hall

Organization

Dirigat

Simon Wills

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

Ubu Ensemble

The Yellow Shark

London

Vereinigtes Königreich

Barbican Centre

Milton Court Concert Hall

The Yellow Shark: The Perfect Stranger Zappa (+4 More)

Public

Private

The Perfect Stranger

Konzert für neun Instrumente, op. 24

Pribaoutki, K020

Intégrales

Genehmigt

Guildhall’s Ubu Ensemble pay homage to Frank Zappa’s iconic last album The Yellow Shark, harvested from his appearance at the 1992 Frankfurt Festival.

Following a diagnosis of terminal cancer, in 1991 Zappa agreed to appear as a featured composer at the Frankfurt Festival the next year. What started as a cautious collaboration turned into an inspired one when Zappa started working with the German contemporary music orchestra, Ensemble Modern.  The concerts that followed have gone down in history, thanks in part to The Yellow Shark. The album contains live recordings from the festival in which Zappa’s tongue-in cheek command to his audience to ‘get serious’ rubs shoulders with now-classic Zappa scores including the unmistakable melody of 'G-Spot Tornado'.

This performance focuses on works that rhapsodize on Zappa’s intense, disciplined interest in classical counterpoint. Music by the composer’s beloved Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky and Anton Webern provide essential context.

English

Aufführungskredite (Besetzung & Produktionsteam )

Ensemble