The late great Frank Zappa – whose cross-genre work with the LA Phil I encountered as a kid – photographed with his parents by John Olson in that orchestra’s fair city in 1971. See Olson’s series of rockers with their folks at LIFE.
[Zappa image via I Hate Music!, LIFE set via kottke.org]
Saturday night at the Oster Regent Theatre Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale sets the stage for a new piece inspired and informed by it, The Fiddler’s Tale by Wynton Marsalis. In the meantime, another notable re-working of Stravinksy’s chamber orchestra masterpiece:
Frank Zappa – Royal March from L’Histoire du Soldat
from Make A Jazz Noise Here
![The late great Frank Zappa – whose cross-genre work with the LA Phil I encountered as a kid – photographed with his parents by John Olson in that orchestra’s fair city in 1971. See Olson’s series of rockers with their folks at LIFE.
[Zappa image via I Hate Music!, LIFE set via kottke.org]](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/jasonweinberger/1041968530/1/tumblr_l7seyhNnps1qa6me5)
