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 Interviewed by David Reitman for Rock Magazine (25 January 1971), the list of influences in the sleeve of ''[[Freak Out!]]'' was discussed. Zappa said that he would nowadays add Krzysztof Penderecki and [[Arthur Honegger]], but said that he liked Penderecki's instrumental music more than his choral music, citing the ''Violin Capriccio'', performed by Paul Zukofsky, as a particular good piece. He also said that he owned two versions of Penderecki's ''Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima'', by Victrola and Phillips, preferring the Victrola for its better sound.
 <ref>https://www.afka.net/Articles/1971-01_Rock.htm</ref>
-Interviewed by Rob Fixmer for Bugle American (17 December 1975), Zappa repeated that he nowadays add Penderecki to the list of influences in the sleeve of ''[[Freak Out!]]'', alongside [[György Ligeti]] and [[Filip Kutev|Philip Koutev]]. <ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/notes/Other_People.html</ref>
+Interviewed by Rob Fixmer for Bugle American (17 December 1975), Zappa repeated that he nowadays would add Penderecki to the list of influences in the sleeve of ''[[Freak Out!]]'', alongside [[György Ligeti]] and [[Filip Kutev|Philip Koutev]]. <ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/notes/Other_People.html</ref>
 [[Seal Call Fusion Music]] (from ''[[At The Circus (BTB)]]'') includes the line, ''"Seal Call Fusion Music.  It's a Penderecki number."''

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	'''Krzysztof Penderecki''' (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkʂɨʂtɔf pɛndɛˈrɛt͡skʲi] (November 23, 1933 - March 29, 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. His avant-garde composition ''"Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima" (1960)'' for string orchestra and his choral ''"St. Luke Passion" (1966)'' both featured novel compositional techniques, which made him a famous name. He is equally famous for ''[[The Devils of Loudun\|Die Teufel von Loudun]] (The Devils of Loudun)''. Since the 1970s Penderecki's style has changed to encompass a post-Romantic idiom.		'''Krzysztof Penderecki''' (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkʂɨʂtɔf pɛndɛˈrɛt͡skʲi] (November 23, 1933 - March 29, 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. His avant-garde composition ''"Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima" (1960)'' for string orchestra and his choral ''"St. Luke Passion" (1966)'' both featured novel compositional techniques, which made him a famous name. He is equally famous for ''[[The Devils of Loudun\|Die Teufel von Loudun]] (The Devils of Loudun)''. Since the 1970s Penderecki's style has changed to encompass a post-Romantic idiom.
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		+	In 1971, Penderecki collaborated with jazz composer [[Don Cherry]] on the album ''Actions''.

	==Zappa and Penderecki==		==Zappa and Penderecki==

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 Zappa mentioned Penderecki as one of his favorite composers in the interviews ''[[Humo Spoke With Zappa!]]'' and ''[[Martin Perlich interviews FZ]]''.
-Interviewed by Rob Fixmer for Bugle American (17 December 1975), Zappa said that, since he made his list of influences in the sleeve of ''[[Freak Out!]]'', there were only a few more names that he would add nowadays, namely Krzysztof Penderecki, [[György Ligeti]] and [[Filip Kutev|Philip Koutev]]. <ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/notes/Other_People.html</ref>
+Interviewed by David Reitman for Rock Magazine (25 January 1971), the list of influences in the sleeve of ''[[Freak Out!]]'' was discussed. Zappa said that he would nowadays add Krzysztof Penderecki and [[Arthur Honegger]], but said that he liked Penderecki's instrumental music more than his choral music, citing the ''Violin Capriccio'', performed by Paul Zukofsky, as a particular good piece. He also said that he owned two versions of Penderecki's ''Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima'', by Victrola and Phillips, preferring the Victrola for its better sound.
 [[Seal Call Fusion Music]] (from ''[[At The Circus (BTB)]]'') includes the line, ''"Seal Call Fusion Music.  It's a Penderecki number."''

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 *[[wikipedia:Krzysztof_Penderecki|Wikipedia article on Penderecki]]
-[[Category:Composers|Penderecki]]
+[[Category:Classical Composers|Penderecki]]
 [[Category:Conductors|Penderecki]]
-[[Category:Favorite Artists|Penderecki]]
+[[Category:Favorite Classical Composers|Penderecki]]
 [[Category:Influences|Penderecki]]

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 Zappa mentioned Penderecki as one of his favorite composers in the interviews ''[[Humo Spoke With Zappa!]]'' and ''[[Martin Perlich interviews FZ]]''.
-[[Seal Call Fusion Music]] (from ''[[At The Circus (BTB)]]'') includes the line, "Seal Call Fusion Music.  It's a Penderecki number."
+Interviewed by Rob Fixmer for Bugle American (17 December 1975), Zappa said that, since he made his list of influences in the sleeve of ''[[Freak Out!]]'', there were only a few more names that he would add nowadays, namely Krzysztof Penderecki, [[György Ligeti]] and [[Filip Kutev|Philip Koutev]]. <ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/notes/Other_People.html</ref>
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 ''"If you want some real "deep in a hurt" music try "Utrenja" by Penderecki. (...) It's got a lot of screaming and torment and dissonant chords. Real hurt, if that's your idea of a good time."''<ref> Frank Zappa, 1975 radio interview. http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/concerts/player.html?type=concert&ConcertID=20051491%7C2431</ref>.
-Zappa named ''"[[The Devils of Loudun]]"'' by Penderecki one of his 10 favorite records in ''[[Faves, Raves And Composers In Their Graves]]''. In ''[[Classical Zappa]]'' he also cites it as his favourite opera, because he ''"liked the enema scene."'' He added some more details about his appreciation during a 1975 radio interview:
+Zappa named ''"[[The Devils of Loudun]]"'' by Penderecki one of his 10 favorite records in ''[[Faves, Raves And Composers In Their Graves]]''. In ''[[Classical Zappa]]'' he also cites it as his favourite opera, because he ''"liked the [[Enemas|enema scene]]."'' He added some more details about his appreciation during a 1975 radio interview:
 ''"This Catholic Polish gentleman which writes very interesting music doing this opera with religious and demonic overtones (...) The thing that knocks me out: I've got this Philips recording with Tatjana Troyanos singing the lead vocal in this enema sequence where's to exercise Asmodeus who is supposed to be lurking inside her bowel, according to the text by [[Wikipedia:Aldous Huxley|Aldous Huxley]]. They have to take her behind the screen on stage and pump her up in sort of philosophical sense with some, unseen by the audience, herbal burbling enema. And the music he has going on for that scene is very ingenious, you know. You hear the bubbles and she is singing interesting little screams and grunts and stuff. I'd say: "That's a step forward." There's not too many things in rock 'n' roll that can compare to that. I put it right up alongside of "[[Wikipedia:Lady Marmalade|Voulez-Vous Couchez Avec Moi]]", one of those funk tunes."'' <ref> Frank Zappa, 1975 radio interview. http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/concerts/player.html?type=concert&ConcertID=20051491%7C2431</ref>.

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 <blockquote> ''"Probably the most influential composer in terms of how many people imitated his style, in recent years, that award would go to [[Anton Webern|Webern]] first, for being the founder of the 'boop-beep' school and also to Penderecki because of the 'texture' music that a lot of people imitate. But I think that even his music grows out of some of the textural experiments that [[Edgard Varèse|Varèse]] did."''</blockquote><div align=right>— [[Frank Zappa on Edgar Varèse]], DownBeat Magazine, November 21, 1981.</div>
-'''Den Simms''': ''"Particularly, conducting the audience, where did your idea of doing that ... I know that you've been doing that for years, too. Is that just somethin' you thought up, or somethin'? How did you come about doin' that? That's my particular favorite, one of my favorite things you do."''
+'''[[Den Simms]]''': ''"Particularly, conducting the audience, where did your idea of doing that ... I know that you've been doing that for years, too. Is that just somethin' you thought up, or somethin'? How did you come about doin' that? That's my particular favorite, one of my favorite things you do."''
 '''Frank Zappa''': ''"There's a school of European composition that deals with music as texture. Like Penderecki. Some of his stuff would fall into that, where it's not about the melody and the chords. It's about, if you take a group of instruments, and you have them doing different kinds of things all at the same time, it creates something that's more than a chord. It's a texture. It's a sound that's crawling with texture and it's wiggling. And it seemed to me that when an audience applause occurs, there's like, random texture, all the different beats are going at different rates, and that makes this one big sound that's called "Applause". But if you control the rate of the clapping or the location of the clapping you could use the sound of the applause as a musical thing. So I tried it one night and the audience liked it ..."''

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	Zappa mentioned Penderecki as one of his favorite composers in the interviews ''[[Humo Spoke With Zappa!]]'' and ''[[Martin Perlich interviews FZ]]''.		Zappa mentioned Penderecki as one of his favorite composers in the interviews ''[[Humo Spoke With Zappa!]]'' and ''[[Martin Perlich interviews FZ]]''.
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		+	[[Seal Call Fusion Music]] (from ''[[At The Circus (BTB)'') includes the line, "Seal Call Fusion Music. It's a Penderecki number."

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