Monday, November 1, 2010

ZAPPA AT THE ROUNDHOUSE - SUNDAY 7 NOVEMBER

London Sinfonietta and special guests perform the UK premiere of The Adventures of Greggery Peccary
Main Space / 7pm

The London Sinfonietta promise a very special evening featuring the first ever UK performance of one of Zappa's epic and most popular classical pieces, with perfomers including actor Kwame Kwei-Armah as Greggery. Alongside The Adventures of Greggery Peccary, the London Sinfonietta play Zappa's Revised Music for a Low Budget Orchestra and pieces by two giants of 20th century classical music who inspired his own compositions - Pierre Boulez (Memoriale) and Edgar Varèse (Octandre). The performance also includes a solo set by multi-instrumentalist and Zappa band stalwart, Jeff Simmons.


An audience with Scott Thunes & Jeff Simmons moderated by official biographer Alan Clayson
Studio Theatre / 6pm / £5

As Frank's recording and touring bass player 1981-88, Scott Thunes has some impressive stories to tell. With his guitar to hand, Scott will demonstrate his incredible technique and show how his basslines drove tracks on such Zappa albums as Ship Arriving Too Late to Save A Drowning Witch and Does Humor Belong In Music? Jeff Simmons, who famously quit the band on the eve of the shoot of 200 MOTELS is one of only a handful of musicians to share songwriting credits with Frank Zappa. Jeff played with Frank 1969-74, so will cover a different part of the Zappa chronology in music and words.


www.roundhouse.org.uk

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