Little
Bits
of
Plonsey
Music

Excerpts from the CD

Moving About, Humming,
Still Our Flowers are Blooming,
Under the Old Portcullis:

• Intro
• A
• I

Excerpts from the CD

Wise King Taken by the Foolish One

Excerpts from the opera

Leave Me Alone!

Libretto by Harvey Pekar, with Dan Plonsey, Mantra Plonsey, Joyce Brabner, and Josh Smith

• Harvey's Speech
• Avant Garde Artists
• Lately I've Been Depressed About My Comic Books
• Composition Method: Delayed Counterpoint and Compounded Errors
• Have We Succeeded in Writing an Opera?

DAN PLONSEY'S BAR MITZVAH

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Soon we'll have the video of the whole performance.

Excerpts from the CD

What Leave Behind:
a Concerto for Electric Guitar and Toy Orchestra

Performed by
Fred Frith
and
Toychestra

• Fellini
• 3 Elephants and a Cow
• What Leave Behind

Excerpts from the CD

Open Door And Desire:

• Zali, Dali, and Eggplant Thali
• The Puzzle of the Pre-Socratics
• Open Door Triangle Fire

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Ivory Bill:

• But We Love You, Charlie Brown
• The Butterfly Path is Gone
• Lizard Music

Excerpts from performances by Daniel Popsicle:

• My Version
• Heading into North Berkeley
• Whose Brother Morton?

• Almond and Pistacio Green
• Aqua, Brown, White, Orange, Pink & Pale Blue
• Basil Eye Green
• Black, White, Maroon
• Breezy Brown Clouds and Pale Blue
• Bright Green Bright Blue
• Bronze and Red Velvet
• Chocolatey Blue
• Clear and Pleasant Blue
• Clown Blue
• Clown Yellow
• Color Meant Idea as Spectrum
• Coal White
• The Indigo Morton
• Light and Dark Blues
• Light Emerald Green
• Light Shade of Puce
• Little Pinko and the Big Blue
• Murky Blue Mustard
• Pale Turquoise
• Pea Green
• Pink
• Plum Red
• Purple Yellow Red
• Red Marmalade
• The Red We do for Red
• Yellow Red Blue Green

Left to right: Chris Silvey, Michael Zelner, Suki O'Kane, and Tom Yoder.

Excerpts from the CD

Understanding Human Behavio

• Fancy Dancy
• All Over the Oboe
• Beautiful, Beautiful Feeling

Excerpt from an unfinished project,

Music from a Failed Renaissance

Featuring:
Mantra Ben-Ya'akova Plonsey: lyrics, vocal melody, voice
Dan Plonsey: all instruments, arrangement

Page 13, with Mantra

Mantra

Excerpts from the CD

Imperfect Masters: Strike Out

• Mighty Sun Ra at the Bat
• Seal Beach Sandlot Game
• Age of First Ash Trees

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Imperfect Masters: No One Knows Why

• Accelerated Summer Course
• The Old Revolutionaries Of Bughouse Square
• The Big Orange Splot