This piece was first time recorded in 1970 by Jean-Luc Ponty under the
title
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Music For Electric Violin And Low Budget Orchestra
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And here is a quote from J-L.P. King Kong album (US World Pacific Jazz
ST-20172) liners note, explaining
Why is it for Low Budget Orchestra after all
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"As Ponty and Zappa promptly developed an interest in each other
music, the concept of a collaborative project was born. Frank was
particularly concerned with the developement of an exteneded orchestral
work, a formal piece tied to no one idiom and allowing Ponty interludes
of expressive freedom. Music For Electric Violin and Low Budget
Orchestra (a title decide upon, one suspects, after Zappa had asked
Bock [producer] 97-piece ensemble) is illustrative of Zappa's mastery
not only of composition and orchestration, but also of transition
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.......
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The long work was conducted by Ian Underwood, former alto saxophonist
and keyboardist with the Mothers Of Invention..."
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