Don Van Vliet's orchestral performances
In September 1975 The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Orchestra was put together to present a series of orchestral pieces written by Frank Zappa. Michael Zearott was the conductor and Frank produced and recorded most of these shows. Forty musicians were assembled by Zappa with help from Earle Dumler and Mike Altschul. One of the orchestra members was Don Van Vliet who played soprano saxophone.
If anyone has access to recordings from this project we'd be very interested to hear them.
The full story is published here: http://users.cableaz.com/~lantz/pages/emuukha.html
Thanks to Fire Party member brainpang for spotting this.
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