Entrance of the Gladiators

"Entrance of the Gladiators" or "Entry of the Gladiators" (in Czech: Vjezd gladiátorů, in German: Einzug der Gladiatoren) is a military march composed in 1897 by the Czech composer Julius Fučík.

Zappa quoted this composition three times in his work:

• America Drinks: After the line "Now I know just what it feels like."

• The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary : After the line "They zoom after him in all manner of cars, trucks, garishly-painted buses..."

• Rhymin' Man.: After the line: "Farrakhan made him a clown."

Zappa about Entrance of the Gladiators

Den Simms:: And how 'bout that chromatic sounding circus melody which you used ...

(...)

Frank Zappa: "I don't know what that's called, but it's like (...) The Circus Lick".

Frank Zappa in They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1, Den Simms, Eric Buxton, Rob Samler, Society Pages, April 1990.