La Vanguardia
J.Marcote: It's a very interesting article
about FZ and his projects to come for 1992 in Spain - The Expo
in Seville, the Olympic games in Barcelona, Madrid as Cultural
Capital of Europe - several projects for each one.
Some of these projects were presented to Mayors of Moscow &
Milan, but FZ preferred Spain as point for inter cultural exchange
between Europe & America.
There are several pictures, one of them FZ appears together
with Juan Barranco (Mayor of Madrid) and Teddy Bautista ( vice-president
of SGAE - Spanish Copyright Authors Society and ex-member of
Los Canarios, a great Spanish progressive band of the seventies)
in a meeting ( March 30, 1989) at the Town Hall of Madrid.
As well there is a part entitled: "Soviet musicians say "Welcome
Papa Zappa!". It's about an extravagant idea of FZ to land
with an US Hercules aircraft in Moscow with his mobile studio
to go for different Soviet Republics to record the best of them
and back to Lenin Stadium to present in a festival the best
he found out. And before all this to land in Spain and other
European countries to pick up musical instruments donated for
delivery to Soviet musicians.
This article is related to an interview from T'Mershi Duween
fanzine:
An Evening With Pierre Boulez And Frank Zappa.
On forming a World Orchestra: About four months ago, I made
a proposal to the World's Fair organisation, the next one is
in Seville 1992, and I offered to put together an orchestra
that was made up of ethnic instruments, people who could play
ethnic instruments from all different countries who could also
read music and could play different styles, and could combine
these with electronic instruments and normal orchestral instruments.
Part of the project was that the people from Expo would commission
composers around the world to write five to eight minute pieces
for this orchestra. In other words, if you wanted to, if you
were a composer that wanted to have access to these special
ethnic instruments, it could be very difficult for you to afford
to gather together, from all over the world, these different
pieces of equipment, and have people who could read music and
play it. It would be creating a vehicle that would provide an
opportunity for a lot of composers. The status of the project
is this: I'm going to Spain on May 28, because I've been told
that the Christopher Columbus Committee, which is another organisation
from Madrid which is putting on a big event in 1992, wants to
finance the orchestra. I will believe it when I get a contract
for it, but if they decide that they will finance this orchestra,
I will then get on a plane and start shopping for musicians
all over the world. I will get this together for them, and I
spoke to Pierre the other day at breakfast and invited him to
write a piece, (with mock anger) but HE'S TOO BUSY THOUGH!
Source: Javier Marcote
1993 December 7
Muere el legendario músico Frank
Zappa
ed., pp 34, 38
Algo más que un artista de culto
By Mingus B. Formentor, p 34
Zappa, uno de los compositores más mordaces de la música
popular
ed., p 38
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