PROGRAM EPISODE: ROCK THE CLASSICS PROGRAM NOTES In today's VINYL VIBRATIONS podcast, I tour LP records from the 1960s and 1970s where the rock or pop artist is performing classical music, or giving a new dimension to classical music. These performances are found on Vinyl LP and today’s show is called ROCK THE CLASSICS ! We will hear from Frank Zappa, Blood Sweat & Tears, Jethro Tull, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Deodato, Steely Dan, today … on ROCK THE CLASSICS. INTRO to ROCK THE CLASSICS (narrate only the names of the groups) Today we hear ROCK THE CLASSICS …  we will hear… Zappa entertain us with time riddles from Stravinsky Wendy Carlos reinvents a Cantata from JS Bach,  Blood Sweat & Tears soothes us….with music from Erik Satie Jethro Tull and a jazz rendition of a dance from JS Bach Emerson Lake & Palmer rocks us with Bela Bartok Deodato provides fanfare from Richard Strauss … and Steely Dan celebrates a ragtime classic from jazz great, Duke Ellington Tracks Today: M1 Petrushka (I. Stravinsky), Frank Zappa, ‘Tis The Season To Be Jelly M2 Cantata 147, 10th mvt) (J.S. Bach), Wendy Carlos M3 Trois Gymnopedies On A Theme (Erik Satie), Blood Sweat & Tears M4 Bouree (J.S. Bach), Jethro Tull M5 The Barbarian (Bela Bartok) Emerson Lake & Palmer M6 Also Sprach Zarathustra 2001, (Richard Strauss) Deodato M7 East St. Louis Toodle-Oo, (Duke Ellington) Steely Dan In today's podcast we will hear seven examples of a rock or pop artist, in one case a classical music rocker, performing classical music, and with striking interpretations, new instruments or technology, or change to the musical meter as influenced by pop or rock rhythm… produced between 1965 and 1977. M1 Song  Petrushka, Album ‘Tis The Season To Be Jelly, Album Artist Frank Zappa, Composer I. Stravinsky (1911), Year 1967, Released By - Bootleg album Petrushka is a ballet with music by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, composed in 1911. It was premièred in Paris and although the production was a success, music was reviewed as brittle, caustic and even grotesque. Two years later, in 1913, the Vienna Philharmonic initially refused to play the score, considering the score as “dirty music”. As for Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, the album ‘Tis the Season to Be Jelly was recorded at Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden on September 30, 1967. Pretty cool really, because The Stockholm Concert Hall (Konserthuset) is the main hall for orchestral music in Stockholm, Sweden, it is the home to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Bringing us back to the design of this hall for classical music. Was Zappa compelled or inspired by this great house to include SOMETHING classical? This song, Petrushka, was originally recorded by Zappa and distributed on a bootleg album. So now, going back to the 1913 sentiment about Petrushka being “dirty music”, interesting that the bootleg album cover features a caricature of Zappa’s foot and a smelly sock. Perhaps this truly is… “dirty music”? At the time of this recording, Zappa was 26 years old, so this is very early in his recording career. Only one year earlier, in 1966, Zappa released his debut album FREAK OUT with The Mothers of Invention. And only a week before this concert performance, Frank Zappa wed Gail Sloatman, with whom he was married and produced four children, right until his untimely death in 1993. Today we hear a short rendition of Petrushka, as arranged for rock band, by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, and as performed in the Konserthuset in Stockholm, in 1967. M2 Song Cantata 147, (Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life), 10th mvt,