Torino / Wednesday 21 September 2011
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Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi / at 05:00 PM

Zappa’s Revenge

Music by Francesco Zappa (ca. 1745-1788?) and Frank Zappa (1940-1993)

Free admission
While visiting the University of Berkeley library in 1983, Frank Zappa looked up his own name in the New Grove Dictionary. What he found was a few lines about Francesco Zappa, an eighteenth-century Milanese composer. Frank identified with his predecessor and released the Baroque-tinged Francesco Zappa. Today, in exchange for that favor, it’s Zappa’s Revenge, with classical transcriptions and performances of classic Frank Zappa pieces, alongside pieces by Francesco Zappa.

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by Vanni Moretto

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