Frank Zappa Mount St. Mary's Concert Excerpt Lyrics

Mount St. Mary's College, LA
May 19, 1963

FZ--conductor, zither
Malcolm McNab--trumpet
Peter Arcaro--trumpet, brass section conductor
Philip Barnett--oboe, English horn
Barry--woodwinds section conductor

FZ: The next piece that we're going to play . . . Maybe I should tell you what we were doing . . . The, the signals that we were giving, I'll explain to you very simply: This means 'free improvisation' and the finger signals told the performers which of the fragments they were to uh, play at any given moment. Anyway, the next piece that we're going to play is in standard notation, and it's actually pretty tame compared to the Opus 5. It's called The Collage Two, and it was written last Thursday.