Når Kringkastingsorkestret stiller opp i konsertserien “Bylyder” tar de med seg musikk av blant andre Frank Zappa.
Fredag 11. april kl. 19.30
Lindemansalen, Norges musikkhøgskole (Oslo)
- Giovanni B. Pergolesi: Musikk brukt av Stravinsky i Pulcinella
- Igor Stravinskky: Pulcinella, suite
- Frank Zappa: G-spot Tornado
- Frank Zappa: Dog Breath Variations
- Frank Zappa: Revised Music for Low Budget Symphony Orchestra
- Jon Øivind Ness: Fierce Kentucky Mothers of Doom: konsert for to tromboner og to ensembler
Garry: So, the Norwegians find it, and they dig it out of the ice…
MacReady: That’s right, Garry. They dig it up, they cart it back to their base. Somehow it gets thawed, it wakes up, probaly not the best of moods, and… I don’t know, I wasn’t there!
(From Carpenter´s “The Thing”, 1982)
For Norwegians, that was a very good program. Akkurat morsomt, gutter & guttor!
Arrrrghh. Må sjekke denne siden oftere.
Hey, Norwegians, how was the concert? Tell us about it!
It was awesome.
From the beginning: Ness’ Concert for two trombones and two ensembles was beautiful, and an exercise in symmetry. Two grand cassas, two grand pianos, two of everything, interacting in true stereo. And there was lots of zappaesque humor in it.
I found Pergolesi and Stravinsky surprisingly boring. Maybe it’s only me.
Dog Breath was a little disappointing to me, but all in all ok.
Low Budget is always good, also this time. The guitar parts was to anonymous for my taste, no edge at all, but they also hired the great drummer Erik Smith, anything but anonymous.
And finally G-spot Tornado. Fantastic. Motivated musicians having a ball and tons of drums and fun stuff. The man with mustache we are not allowed to visualize, named it G-spot Tornado for a reason.
Hi Harald – thanks for the info! As far as I know, the orchestra belongs to the Norwegian Radio. Is there any recording available from the event? It would be nice!
The event was recorded and I expect it to be broadcasted in a while. I’ll post back if I find out where and when.
Public radio recordings of FZ music.
Barry,
Many years ago- in the late 80 ties, beginning of the 90 ties- I attended a concert in the Flagey building in Brussels. It was organised by the Flemish public radio.
Program : nothing but FZ music. Very good concert, by the way. Performed by (1) a string quartet , ie the best students of the Brussels Conservatory and (2) a big band, conducted by an energetic englishman.
I remember
– that Inca Roads transcribed as a string quartet was extraordinary wonderful,
– that is was released one way or another.
Anyway VRT radio should still have the tapes in the archives.
A suggestion : just get in touch with them, for instance via Zjaki Willems.
Ok everybody, the concert is to be broadcasted at NRK P2 this sunday 19:30 cet:
http://tinyurl.com/6k79pt
You can find NRK audio streams here -hope they work abroad:
http://nrk.no/lyd/
DOH! It’s sunday and it seems that they rescheduled. No zap today.
Thanks for the info anyway, Harald! If a recording pops up, please let us know! Thanks! 🙂