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You should consider Publizing Frank Zappa where all worlds meet, overlap and sometimes colide. He was better schooled in classical music and modern jazz than any rock musician before or since. He sometimes made John Cage look mainstream. Who else could interpret Ravel's Bolero as reggae?

In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky
~ Frank Zappa ~

Ravel's Bolero
~ Frank Zappa ~

Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus
~ Frank Zappa ~

Revised Music for Low Budget Orchestra
~ Frank Zappa & Jean Luc Ponty ~

Approximate
~ Frank Zappa ~

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In the last years of his life, Zappa formed a frienship with Nicholas Slonimsky, author of the most influential book on harmony ever written and a major player in modern music. Slonimsky was coming to the end of his very, very long life.

I met the 94 year old Slonimsky at a concert in L.A. in 1988, where he was accompanied by his stunning, red-headed teenage great-granddaughter. (They didn't look like that when I was young!) It was a program of Ives, Boulez and Varese conducted by Boulez himself. Zappa might have been there, but I didn't spot him.