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Trans-Siberian Orchestra (often abbreviated as TSO) is an orchestra founded in 1996 by Paul O'Neill, who brought together long-time friends Jon Oliva, Robert Kinkel, and Al Pitrelli. The band's musical style incorporates progressive rock, symphonic metal, and heavy metal, with influences from classical music. Trans-Siberian Orchestra has recorded and performed renditions of traditional Christmas songs, and these have been among their most popular works. They are also known for their elaborate concerts, complete with a full light show and dozens of pyrotechnics that are synchronized with their performance.
[edit] BiographyTrans-Siberian Orchestra was founded in 1996 in New York City by composer Paul O'Neill who approached long-time friends Jon Oliva, Robert Kinkel, and Al Pitrelli. The group's name is inspired by the Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia, which Kinkel says connects many cultures otherwise isolated, much like music. O'Neill has managed and produced rock bands including Aerosmith, Humble Pie, and Scorpions, later writing for and producing Savatage, where he began working with Kinkel and Oliva. The concept for a band playing Christmas carols in a rock opera style was not received warmly by the industry,[citation needed] but quickly proved a success with adults as well as young people.  In the recording studio, Trans-Siberian Orchestra uses a full 60-piece orchestra and a choir. As of 2004, their touring band included 14 vocalists, 14 musicians, and 2 narrators. Trans-Siberian Orchestra released their debut album Christmas Eve and Other Stories in 1996, and it remains their best-selling album. From then on, TSO cover arts are painted by popular artist Greg Hildebrandt. Their 1998 release The Christmas Attic was similarly a concept album with a Christmas theme. This album featured what remains one of their most recognizable songs, Christmas Canon, a take on Pachelbel's Canon in D. Trans-Siberian Orchestra played their first live show in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1999. In 2000, they released their first non-Christmas album, Beethoven's Last Night, a concept album about Ludwig van Beethoven's last night on earth, during which he meets Fate, her son Twist, and Mephistopheles. After several years of touring, they returned to the studio and subsequently released another full-length album, The Lost Christmas Eve, and the accompanying DVD/3-CD release The Christmas Trilogy, which contained all three of their Christmas albums to date.  The 2005 TSO tour placed 21st on the list of the most successful concert tours of the year, earning just over US$21 million.[5] The string section comprises local musicians. Live shows are known for their extensive use of pyrotechnics, lasers & lights synchronized with the performance, all of which takes 15 hours to set up.[6] Shows are divided into two halves: the first consisting of the story and songs of Christmas Eve and Other Stories, the second a mix of songs from The Christmas Attic, Beethoven's Last Night, The Lost Christmas Eve, and a few miscellaneous covers (that in the past have included "Layla", "Immigrant Song", and "Proud Mary"), finishing with a reprise of "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24. The 2008 tour also featured a 2-song Savatage selection ("Prelude to Madness" from Hall of the Mountain King and "Believe" from Streets: A Rock Opera", though only the East touring company played both songs; the West company, for reasons unknown, only performed "Prelude To Madness".
Night Castle is a non-Christmas album of Trans-Siberian Orchestra that was released on October 27, 2009. It includes a version of "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, which was previewed live by the band during their 2004-2008 tours. It also contains four rewritten versions of previous Savatage songs as well as Nutrocker, a song most famously made by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, with Greg Lake on bass guitar. It is a two-CD set and pre-release sales include a download of five tracks in MP3 format. [edit] TSO tours and touring groupsTrans-Siberian Orchestra first took the show on the road in 1999, with a handful of concerts in Philadelphia, New York City, Cleveland, Chicago, and Detroit. The next year, two separate touring groups were formed to allow the band to cover more ground in the short holiday timeframe. TSO has maintained the two-group format since then, and by the 2008 tour, both groups were on the road from the beginning of November to the first week in January. The two touring groups are informally known as TSO East and TSO West, although these descriptions are not entirely literal; before 2008, for example, TSO West historically played in Atlanta and Florida. Both groups have appeared in Midwestern cities such as Chicago and Indianapolis. The 2009 touring groups are as follows.
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Cellist: Elliza Esquavez Brandon Murphy-Marcello [edit] Discography[edit] Studio albums
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[edit] PhilanthropyTSO signed on as an official supporter of Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that provides free musical instruments and instruction to children in poor public schools throughout the USA. The band has donated grants to LKR to help them hold free teacher trainings. They also sit on LKR's Honorary Board of Directors. At most tour stops, the group donates $1 from each ticket sold to a local charity in the city they are performing in. For example, in 2009, when in Council Bluffs, IA, the group donated over $3,000 to the Salvation Army, the November 28th performance in Charlotte, NC donated more than $11,000 to the Levine Children's hospital, more than $6,000 was donated to the Richmond Animal League when in Richmond, VA, and at the Nov. 21, 2009 8pm performance in Philadelphia, the group donated over $12,000 to the Marine Toys-for-Tots Foundation--the check was presented to two active duty U.S. Marines who received a standing ovation from the crowd when they were introduced. On Dec 13, 2009, TSO donated $11,800 to the Hunger Task Force and presented the check at the opening of the show. The orchestra regularly salutes the armed forces at the intermission, calling them the greatest heroes of all. [edit] See also
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