Selected performances
of Raymond Scott's Music in concert, theater, etc., in recent
years
Raymond Scott music LivePerformances
Kronos Quartet: Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals (1993-97);
Powerhouse, Twilight in Turkey, The Penguin (1994-99)
Dick Hyman: (New York) Powerhouse, Reckless Night on Board an
Ocean Liner, Boy Scout in Switzerland, The Penguin, Egyptian
Barn Dance (7/92)
Don Byron Sextet: The Penguin, Siberian Sleighride (1993-98); Tobacco
Auctioneer, The Quintette Plays Carmen, Powerhouse, War Dance
for Wooden Indians, various int'l venues (1996-98) incl. Jazz:
The Next Wave @ Brooklyn Academy of Music (11/22/96)
Coffee Club Orchestra: Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals, on Garrison
Keillor's American Radio Company (4/93); also: Dinner Music for
a Pack of Hungry Cannibals and Powerhouse at 1993 Caramoor Festival,
Katonah, NY (July 4, 1993)
The Beau Hunks Sextette: [Various: 1993-1999] (a.k.a. The Wooden Indians, Holland) Powerhouse, The Penguin,
Boy Scout in Switzerland, Celebration on Planet Mars, War Dance
for Wooden Indians, Reckless Night on Board an Ocean Liner (1993);
The Toy Trumpet, Egyptian Barn Dance, Ectoplasm, Street Corner
in Paris, Dedicatory Piece to the Crew and Passengers of the
First Experimental Rocket Express to the Moon (1994). Meltdown
Festival, London (6/29, 6/30/95): Powerhouse, The Toy Trumpet,
Boy Scout in Switzerland, The Penguin, War Dance for Wooden Indians,
Celebration on the Planet Mars, Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry
Cannibals, Bird Life in the Bronx, Square Dance for Eight Egyptian
Mummies, Manhattan Minuet, Twilight in Turkey,
A Street Corner in Paris, Snake Woman, Dedicatory Piece to the
Crew and Passengers of the First Experimental Rocket Express
to the Moon, Siberian Sleighride, Steeplechase. Band has toured
Holland & Belgium (1996) performing a exclusively Scott program
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra: In An 18th Century Drawing Room (10/91)
Soldier String Quartet: (New York) Twilight in Turkey (1992); Here Comes
the King (1994)
Vince Giordano & His
Nighthawks: (New York) Powerhouse,
Twilight in Turkey (1993)
Phillip Johnston's Big
Trouble: (New York) Powerhouse (1992-94)
Phillip Johnston's Transparent
Quartet: (New York) Sleepwalker (1996-97)
The Coctails: (Chicago) The Penguin/Powerhouse medley (1993-95)
The Angry Shoppers: (Canada) Powerhouse, Bumpy Weather Over Newark (1993)
Soul Coughing: adaptation of Powerhouse in"Bus to Beelzebub"
(1994-99); sample of The Penguin in "Disseminated"
(1996-99)
Wayne Barker: (New York) Powerhouse/Penguin medley (1993)
Coffee: (Rochester, NY) Ectoplasm, Coming Down to Earth (1994)
Reckless
Night On Board The Bottom Line 1996: (New York) 24-artist
tribute to Scott at club The Bottom Line, featuring: Twilight
in Turkey; Reckless Night on Board an Ocean Liner; The Penguin;
Tobacco Auctioner; Naked City; Sleepwalker; Toy Trumpet; Blue,
Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue; War Dance for Wooden Indians; Coming
Down to Earth; Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals; Tired
Teddy Bear; Swing, Swing Mother-in-Law; Yesterday's Ice Cubes;
Mountain High, Valley Low; Never Going to Swing No More; Peter
Tambourine; Street Corner in Paris; In an 18th Century Drawing
Room; Christmas Night in Harlem; Oil Gusher; Powerhouse (Sept.
21, 1996)
Reckless
Night On Board The Bottom Line 1997: (New York) 27-artist
tribute to Scott at club The Bottom Line, featuring: Twilight
in Turkey; Oil Gusher; The Penguin; Siberian Sleighride; Tobacco
Auctioner; Sleepwalker; And The Cow Jumped Over the Moon; A Boy
Scout in Switzerland; Tia Juana; Bourbon, Bourbon; Coming Down
to Earth; The Happy Farmer; Caterpillar Creep; City of New York;
Bumpy Weather Over Newark; Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue; Coming
(Back) Down to Earth (vocal); Peter Tambourine; Twilight Zone;
Powerhouse. Program also included reminiscences by Mr. Robert
Moog of his days working with Scott, and a demonstration of the
Scott Clavivox (Sept. 27, 1997)
Raymond Scott Tribute
Show: (New York) The Raymond Scott
Orchestrette at The Jewish Museum (Feb, 1999)
Central Park CenterStage: (New York) The Raymond Scott Orchestrette opening
for They Might Be Giants (June, 1999)
Samm Bennett: New Year's Eve In A Haunted House (sample), in New
Music for Koko the Clown, presented at the American Museum of
the Moving Image (Astoria, NY, 1992, 1996), Art at St. Ann's
(Brooklyn, 1994), Knitting Factory (NY, 1995)
It's All In The Timing: (New York) eight Scott Quintette recordings used
as entrance, between-act, intermission, and closing music in
off-Broadway comedy production at John Houseman Theatre, 42nd
Street (1994-95)
Whitney Museum of American
Art: (New York) Scott's "Confusion
Among a Fleet of Taxicabs Upon Meeting Up With A Fare" (1936
recording) played in retrospective program of films by Peggy
Ahwesh (July 30-Aug 3, 1997)
Tomorrowland - DisneyWorld: (Orlando, FL) six Scott Quintette compositions and
recordings blatantly used as musical template for constantly-running
soundtrack loop at renovated theme park attraction; infringement
settled out of court (1995-96)
You Should Be So Lucky: (New York) "Powerhouse" used in theatrical
production at Westside Theatre Upstairs, dir. Charles Busch (1995)
Ars Futura: (Philadelphia) "Siberian Sleighride," "The
Penguin," & "Powerhouse" (4/16/98)
Boston Musica Viva: Reckless
Night at the Mill: Powerhouse; Reckless
Night on Board an Ocean Liner; Twilight in Turkey; The Toy Trumpet;
Girl at the Typewriter; Moment Musical; Oil Gusher; Peter Tambourine;
The Penguin; Swing, Swing Mother-in-Law; Yesterday's Ice Cubes;
Square Dance for Eight Egyptian Mummies; Boy Scout in Switzerland;
Siberian Sleigh Ride; New Year's Eve in a Haunted House; Dinner
Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals (4/13/97)
Oregon Symphony Orchestra: The Toy Trumpet (2/92, 12/93)
Shreveport Symphony Orchestra: (Louisiana) Robert Wendel's symphonic arrangement
of Powerhouse (summer 1994)
Pacific Symphony Orchestra: The Toy Trumpet (7/94)
San Francisco Symphony
Orchestra: Powerhouse (7/4/95)
New Jersey Pops: March of the Slide Trombones (8/94)
West Virginia Symphony
Orchestra: Robert Wendel's symphonic
arrangement of Powerhouse (9/5/94)
Brooklyn Philharmonic
Orchestra: Powerhouse (sample) included
in John Zorn's "For Your Eyes Only," Brooklyn Academy
of Music (October 1994)
Northwest Indiana Symphony
Orchestra: Powerhouse - Thursday,
April 23, 1998 at the Star Plaza Theater in Merrillville, Indiana.
Indianapolis Symphony
Orchestra: Powerhouse (4/8/97)
Richmond Symphony: Robert Wendel's symphonic arrangement of Powerhouse
(6/1/95)
Dubuque Symphony Orchestra: Robert Wendel's symphonic arrangement of Powerhouse
(9/3/95)
Atlanta Symphony: The Toy Trumpet (12/96)
Minnesota Orchestra: The Toy Trumpet (12/20/96)
Caltech Jazz Band: (Pasadena, CA) At An Arabian House Party (5/11/96)
Punch Drunk: (Philadelphia) "Twilight In Turkey" - March
20, 1998 - The Khyber
UCSC Little Big Band /
"Cartoon Jazz Concert":
(UC Santa Cruz) Twilight in Turkey; Powerhouse; The Penguin,
War Dance for Wooden Indians, Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry
Cannibals (6/8/97)
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