Geetar Festival

This should be fun, or at least interesting, tomorrow night. Dave's in it. I have earplugs. I'll post my "critique" afterward.

From the St. Louis Symphony's page:

Guitar Festival: The Pageant

The music of Frank Zappa and Glenn Branca's "Hallucination City," a symphony for up to 100 electric guitars

David Robertson, conductor
John Myers, conductor**

GLENN BRANCA Symphony No. 14, “The Harmonic Series” (World Premiere)
2,000,000,000 Light Years From Home, Part I
ZAPPA G-Spot Tornado
VARÈSE Arcana
GLENN BRANCA Symphony No. 13, “Hallucination City”**

Hear music of Frank Zappa and Edgard Varèse, along with Glenn Branca’s symphony written for 100 electric guitars, with composer/guitarist Steve Mackey and guitar wizard John Patitucci joining 98 St. Louis guitarists and David Robertson on the stage of the Pageant.

And from Glenn Branca's page:

Link to four articles by Glenn Branca on New York Times blog 2007:
http://thescore.blogs.nytimes.com/author/gbranca/?scp=1-b&sq=glenn+branca&st=nyt

The next performance of Branca's 100 guitar piece "SYMPHONY NO. 13 (Hallucination City)" will be at The Pageant in St. Louis on Nov. 13, 2008 on a program with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, who will be performing works by Varese, Zappa, and the world premiere of Branca's 1st movement from "Symphony No. 14 (The Harmonic Series)" conducted by David Robertson.