MB: What about the degree of musical appreciation in your audience?
FZ: Well, I don't want the people to be different, you know. Let's put it this way: I would just as soon have those same people who were out there in that audience last night, with a little bit broader background by which to compute the musical events on stage. When we do things...like the introduction to Call Any Vegetable is the opening part of Agon by Igor Stravinsky. Nobody recognizes that. We played it at that concert in Los Angeles with the Philharmonic -- Zubin Mehta didn't recognize it! And we're playing it exactly off the score; we voiced it out, the exact same things that are on the page, there's nothing left out, just that it's being played by electric instruments. The only person that knew that we played Agon in L.A. was Lalo Schifrin. Nobody in the orchestra even recognized it.
MB: Do they not recognize it out of context or maybe can't see beyond.
FZ: No, it's more likely they've never heard Agon.
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