Trans-Siberian Orchestra

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The sold-out crowd at the 10,000 seat Jenkins Arena in Lakeland witnessed one of the most technically extravagant concerts that the sleepy town had ever seen. The Trans-Siberian Orchestra came to town with a light show capable of sucking enough electricity from the town's power company to leave it in 'brown out' during the concert. Al Gore would have had a hissyfit. Lasers (powerful enough to bore a hole in your skull) abounded, pyro of every manner punctuated musical swells and the band played their instruments like they were mad at them for being ugly. Of course, this is their act and the audience showed it's appreciation with standing ovations several times during the 2 1/2 hour show (no intermission).

The program consisted of their first work "Christmas Eve and Other Stories" followed by selections from their 2 other Christmas pieces as well as their "Beethoven's Last Night" project. The group is famous for taking classical and traditional themes and doing heavy metal arrangements. This unique blend featured the "Queen of the Night" aria from Mozart's "The Magic Flute", "Pachlabel's Cannon", and other operatic and symphonic themes.

You can't turn on the radio at Christmas without hearing their piece "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" featuring themes from "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" & "Carol of the Bells". Along with it's inclusion in the main section of the program, the piece also served as their encore as the lead guitarist and the violinist were strapped into a harness and elevated on a lift as they played their socks off while gas jets shot flames into the air from the stage. The leader encouraged the audience to stay on their feet and give an ovation to the fire department.

We were exhausted! How do they do it night after night? We sure got our 50 bucks worth for the ticket price and the band donated $10,000 from the evening's proceeds to Habitat for Humanity. We were happy to turn back the clocks that night as we were in high gear after a spell-binding performance.