The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra Digital Concert Hall Is Open
It s not the start to their 100th season that Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra had hoped for, but, like the rest of us, they re adapting to new ways of doing things with virtual concerts.
The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra is tuning up and getting ready to perform live concerts again. KSO Conductor and Musical Director Julian Kuerti will pick up the baton at Comstock Auditorium to film five special concerts for the centennial season.
You can t get a ticket to sit in the audience, but you can subscribe to the entire Final Fridays series. On the last Friday of January, February, March, April and May, the concerts will premiere online. You can purchase tickets for individual shows in the range of $10-$30, or show your support for the orchestra and get a season ticket. Each of the Final Fridays Digital Concert Hall performances will be streamed to ticket holders on its opening night and remain available for 30 days on demand.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra Goes Virtual with Live-Streamed Holiday Spectacular with Show Control by grandMA3 Light
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Staff
3 months ago
Although fans of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) didn’t have the chance to see the band’s annual holiday spectacular in an arena near them in 2020, they gleefully flocked to an electrifying, 90-minute live-streamed PPV event, “Christmas Eve and Other Stories,” on December 18.
The band’s long-time Lighting and Production Designer, Bryan Hartley, was challenged to replicate the same big-show qualities – fabulous lighting, pyrotechnics, lasers – that fans have come to expect on a much different scale in 2020. Using the grandMA3 light console running new MA3 software helped him create a show that scored big on production values while offering a more intimate look at the band. ACT Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America.
02 - O Come All Ye Faithful / O Holy Night
03 - The Prince of Peace
04 - First Snow
06 - Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) (Savatage cover)
07 - Good King Joy
Joel Hoekstra s 13 is a supergroup (sorry, we re calling it that!) comprised of former Black Sabbath and Dio drummer, Vinny Appice, Symphony X and Adrenaline Mob singer Russell Allen, bassist Tony Franklin (whose credits are exhaustive) and keyboardist Derek Sherinian (Sons of Apollo, ex-Dream Theater) in addition to the Whitesnake guitarist for which the band is named after. A music video for Finish Line has just been released and it should greatly appeal to fans of ripping 80s metal and stomping melodic rock.
What s best about this song, which leads the band s
Running Games album due Feb. 12, is that it s never egregiously overstepping its obvious nods to so many elements headbangers love about arena-enthused heavy music. There s a little bit of that same feeling you get when you hear the chorus to Journey s Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) and it s great to hear the muscle-armed Appice back in the saddle, pounding away with that unmistakable thunder.