A controversial orchestral film score by music legend Frank Zappa is to have its UK premiere as part of a major celebration of modern classical music.
Zappa's 200 Motels will be performed this autumn as part of the Southbank Centre's ambitious The Rest is Noise festival. A planned performance of the work at the Albert Hall in 1971 was pulled on the grounds of obscenity. The UK premiere has come about after long negotiations with Zappa's estate.
"His widow Gail has been reluctant to allow it to happen unless it could be done in the manner he would have wanted, so it's taken us literally years to get to this stage, said Jude Kelly, the Southbank Centre's artistic director. The 200 Motels premiere is part of the second half of The Rest is Noise Festival announced on Thursday. American musician Zappa, who made more than 60 albums - including other classical works - in a career spanning more than three decades, died in 1993.
200 Motels is the orchestral score for the 1971 musical surrealist film co-written and directed by Zappa and Tony Palmer. Involving an orchestral ensemble of more than 65 musicians and a chorus of 30, the piece will be performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra and members of Southbank Sinfonia with conductor Jurjen Hempel on 29 October.
Inspired by the 2007 book of the same name by music critic Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise Festival is a year-long exploration of 20th Century classical music. It launches this weekend with Richard Strauss's 1905’ opera “Salome and will close in December with John Adams's nativity oratorio from the year 2000, El Nino.
American musician Zappa, who made more than 60 albums - including other classical works - in a career spanning more than three decades, died in 1993.
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