{"id":3431,"date":"2022-03-02T01:44:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T06:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2022-03-02T02:43:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T07:43:05","slug":"plitmann-zappa-newmusicbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/plitmann-zappa-newmusicbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Plitmann Was &#8220;Standout Soloist&#8221; in Zappa&#8217;s 200 Motels at Disney Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"entry-title\">GLORIOUSLY MESSY LODGING: ZAPPA\u2019S\u00a0<em>200 MOTELS<\/em><\/h1>\n<p>Frank Zappa\u2019s\u00a0<i>200 Motels<\/i>\u00a0is a glorious mess. In some ways this makes it the perfect thing to put on to celebrate LA\u2019s Walt Disney Hall and its already turbulent history. While there\u2019s a 1971 film version of Zappa\u2019s magnum opus, and excerpts have been performed live plenty of times before, last Wednesday\u2019s performance boasted the world premiere of Zappa\u2019s orchestral version in its entirety.\u00a0 Over the orchestral accompaniment Frank tells the story of a girl who falls in love with a knute farmer. In between Frank\u2019s monologues, soprano Hila Plitmann expresses the girl\u2019s emotions through wordless vocalise as the orchestra swells. (Piltmann, who also played the role of an obnoxious journalist, was a standout soloist in general, hitting elaborate coloratura lines with laser precision while still being engrossingly expressive.) But as it turns out, the tale is just as rambling and capricious as the music, and the love story was merely a pretense to get us to listen to a bunch of nonsense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nmbx.newmusicusa.org\/gloriously-messy-lodging-zappas-200-motels\/\">Read the review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLORIOUSLY MESSY LODGING: ZAPPA\u2019S\u00a0200 MOTELS Frank Zappa\u2019s\u00a0200 Motels\u00a0is a glorious mess. In some ways this makes it the perfect thing to put on to celebrate LA\u2019s Walt Disney Hall and its already turbulent history. While there\u2019s a 1971 film version of Zappa\u2019s magnum opus, and excerpts have been performed live plenty of times before, last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"related-artist":[39],"class_list":{"0":"post-3431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-press","7":"related-artist-hila-plitmann","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3433,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions\/3433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"related-artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related-artist?post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}