Well, FWIW, the orchestra+pop-rock collaborations you mention happen
all the time with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. In fact, I've done
the orchestrations for two of them -- one with the Klezmer
Conservatory Band and one with alt-country singer Shelby Lynne, and
I'll be doing another one with jazz-soul singer Lizz Wright in 2007.
There was also a recent collaboration with the (affiliated) Atlanta
Youth Symphony and the rock band Collective Soul. They've also done
stuff with Bruce Springsteen, the Barenaked Ladies, etc.
There is a long history of this in Atlanta -- Randy Newman premiered
the material from his (very, very good) album _Good Old Boys_ in a
live gig with the ASO.
Also, I heard the results weren't very good, but the San Francisco
Symphony did a concert with Metallica a while back.
Not sure what, exactly, you're driving at here, though -- these
orchestral crossover projects are rarely musically satisfying for
anyone. (And, I mean, The Eagles?? Meat Loaf????)
Much better is the recent Alarm Will Sound record _Acoustica_,
featuring their arrangements of electronica pieces by Aphex Twin.
- Darcy
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On 30 Jan 2006, at 12:43 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
My position is, though, that a joint concert between the Rolling
Stones and a Symphony is far more likely than a joint concert
between the Eagles and a Symphony orchestra; and that the Berlin
Philharmonic would be more amenable to collaboration in such a
concert than the Chicago Symphony. I note, for example, that the
London Symphony has released a disc covering Rolling Stones tunes,
and while the rocker Meat Loaf was born in Dallas, and has recorded
with the Melbourne Symphony, he has apparently never appeared with
a U.S. symphony.
I would note, too, that I don't mean to suggest that such
collaborations have not happened involving U.S. groups, merely that
they seem to be more common in other parts of the world.
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