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Article: Ensemble Modern brings rare sounds to KenCen: German group to feature the music of Frank Zappa.(Arts)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 7, 1996
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You're planning to take it easy next week: You have tickets to a classical chamber-music concert at the Kennedy Center, where you'll relax to the soothing strains of - "G-Spot Tornado" by composer Frank Zappa.
Is this a hallucination? No. Germany's incredible Ensemble Modern, on its first North American tour, is coming to town, led by American composer John Adams, and the millennium will never be the same.
Made up of an international crew of classically trained musicians, the Ensemble Modern is dedicated to performing music of the Second Viennese School and beyond. The group's world is populated with tone rows, tape recorders and electric guitars, ...