The Yellow Shark

Sep 17, 1992

1h 29m

★ 8.0

Overview

This live recording was culled from seven September 1992 concerts given in Vienna, Berlin, and Frankfurt by the Ensemble Modern, a Frankfurt-based chamber orchestra that performs only contemporary music. Composed and conducted by Frank Zappa.

Genres

Music

Production Companies

Ilona Grundmann Filmproduction

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Cast

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Frank Zappa

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Peter Rundel

Themselves

Ensemble Modern

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Andreas Böttger

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Uwe Dierksen

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Roland Diry

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Stefan Dohr

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Friedemann Dähn

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Thomas Fichter

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William Forman

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Michael Gross

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Hermann Ktetzschmar

Frank Scheffer's (collage like) documentary on the American composer and rock guitarist Frank Zappa, as broadcast by VPRO in the Netherlands April 22,2007. Most of what’s on here is seen before, particularly in Roelof Kier’s 1971 documentary and/or Scheffer’s own documentary “A present day composer refuses to die”. But there is some new stuff too, particularly interviews with Denny Walley, Haskell Wekler, Elliot Ingber and Bruce Fowler.

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