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Today James, Joanna, Julia (wow 3 J's) and I went to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra in concert held at the Madison Square Garden. I've been to it once before, but that was in the Theatre, which seats around 5000 people. This was my first time going to an event held at the arena which is an enormous space capable of seating 18200 people!
The concert lasted for about 3 hours and it was awesome. The band consisted of several guitar players, keyboard players, obviously a drummer, and believing or not... a string section. I have to say though that I could hardly hear any violins which were overpowered by the roaring guitars, but I guess it did a good justification to the band's name. The were several vocalists with voices ranging from hoarse hard rock grunge, to Broadway musical, to opera. The music was very diverse. The program featured many rock renditions of classical pieces by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and other classical composers as well as arrangements of several Christmas carols. Of course there were also original compositions too. Joan Jett (two more J's!) made a surprise guest appearance singing her hit I Love Rock And Roll.
What made the concert really stand out were the awesome light effects produced by spot lights, strobe lights, lasers and fireworks - all synchronized to the music. This was the first concert at which the audience was asked to turn on their cell phones at one point. This was to make us participate in the light effects show by having thousands of cell phones glow in the dark. It was a very cool effect and it made me see how many people have cell phones these days - a lot!
The video is the best way to describe the concert:| Related Links |
Guest Joey Pasaoa wrote: Sunday, January 29, 2006 2:57 PM An Ohio man worked his butt off to set up his house with 10,000 christmas lights this past Christmas, but not only that... he set his house's lights to blink to the music of the Trans-Siberian Orch! If he lived around here I would go to see it, =(, but anyway, check out the video at the following link, Raph. Enjoy!
Joey
http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/daytondailynews/video/christmaslights.wmv?no_owrap=true
Then click this for more info (a googling of the man behind it all, "Carson Williams"):
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Carson+Williams%22
ReplyRaphael Pungin 
wrote: Sunday, January 29, 2006 3:09 PM Hey Joey! Yeah, I saw that video when I was doing my research on this band shortly after the concert. He did an outstanding job and has a lot of time on his hands LOL!
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