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Trans-Siberian Orchestra Winter Tour 2009
Location:
Rose Garden
Ticket Prices:
$57, $47, $37, $25;ticket prices do not include applicable service charges
Stage:
Rose Garden - North End Stage
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Live Nation and AEG Facilities welcomes Trans- Siberian Orchestra tothe Rose Garden on Sunday, November 22, 2009 for two shows; 3p &7:30p.
With the long awaited new album Night Castle on the verge of beingreleased, Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO), one of rock music’s biggestarena attractions, announces it will once again launch anothermonumental North American tour playing more than 80 cities in anine-week period beginning November 1st.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra was formed in 1996 by Paul O'Neill whoimmediately approached long time friends and collaborators RobertKinkel and Jon Oliva to form the core of the writing team. Whileproducing and writing for a number of years with various rock groupsPaul was always looking for ways to make the music have greater andgreater emotional impact. He tried to write the music that was somelodic it didn't need lyrics. And lyrics that were so poetic that theydidn't need music but once you put the two of them together, the sum ofthe parts would be greater than the whole, and you couldn't imaginethem apart. Once he'd done this, he was still looking for a way to takeit to even greater heights and he realized that putting the songswithin the context of a story would give it a third dimension that would make that additional emotional impact possible.
Hence, he started writing not just albums, but rock operas. He realizedthen, that there was an inherent problem recording rock operas withinthe standard rock and roll band makeup. Rock operas by their natureneed the voices to change as the characters change. Rock bands normallyonly have one (or if you're lucky) two great vocalists to work with,therefore limiting how far you can go. You're forced to make the musicfit the band, as opposed to allowing the music to go wherever it needsto.
With Trans-Siberian Orchestra, first the music is created with noartificial limitations, and then we seek out within the classical,rock, Broadway and R & B worlds, the very best singers andmusicians to bring each song to life. This also in many ways forces usto operate on a higher level. This environment has the additionalbenefit of causing a cross pollenization of musical ideas, creatinghybrid forms of music that normally never would have occurred, such asan R&B singer doing a classical style melody and bringing gospeltouches to it that causes it to glitter in ways that even the creatorscould not have predicted. Another very important aspect in the creationof the band, is that there could be no limits on the members; we mixall races and ages.
Once when asked what Trans-Siberian Orchestra was about, Paul O'Neillreplied, "It's about creating great art. When asked to define whatgreat art was, Paul said, "The purpose of art is to create an emotionalresponse in the person that is exposed to that art. And there are threecategories of art; bad art, good art and great art. Bad art will elicitno emotional response in the person that is exposed to it, i.e.; a songyou hear in an elevator and it does nothing to you, a picture on a wallthat gives you the same emotional response as if the wall had beenblank, a movie that chews up time. Good art will make you feel anemotion that you have felt before; you see a picture of a forest andyou remember the last time you went fishing with your dad, you hear asong about love and you remember the last time you were in love. Greatart will make you feel an emotion you have never felt before; seeingthe pieta, the world famous sculpture by Michelangelo, can causesomeone to feel the pain of losing a child even if they've never hadone. And when you're trying for these emotions the easiest one totrigger is anger. Anyone can do it. Go into the street, throw a rock atsomeone, you will make them angry. The emotions of love, empathy andlaughter are much harder to trigger, but since they operate on a deeperlevel, they bring a much greater reward.
Parking: $13
Camera Policy: No Cameras of any kind – this includes Cell Phones.
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