Yes this summer!

[wiseme]

Can you imagine "Awaken" with a full orchrasta?

[1yesfan]

Indeed will be a DIFF. Yesshow this time around.:cheers:

[Thomas_Dachsel]

Well I really would like to hear Heart of the Sunrise
with an orchestra (replacing the synth strings
they normally play). Of course, any other longer
Yes tune would be great too.
Has anyone heard the CD "Symphonic Yes Music"?
What they did to Close to the Edge by shortening
it to some 8 minutes is a crime in its own right.
If they were to rearrange any of the older
complex material for orchestra, I really am looking
forward to it. Of course, it gives them the opportunity
to resell their older stuff again and again.
AND they are said to perform I've seen all good people
and Roundabout as closers... has any one counted
how many live versions of these songs are?
Thomas

[1yesfan]

I DO NOT WANT THE USAL CLOSERS. I want new closing songs.

[sheaterry]

I think this whole project is going to suck with an orchestra replacing the keyboards. The fans voted down the idea of an orchestra-they must be recounting the votes in Florida.

[siberian khatru]

I've read of a $100 top ticket for some of the
announced shows. Maybe the band talked to Keith
Emerson about the cost of ELP's 1977 "Works" tour.
ELP started out with a 60 piece orchestra and choir but
had to drop them after three weeks. The musicians union had rules limiting how far the orchestra members would have to travel between dates. The band could not schedule enough dates per week to pay the cost of moving, housing and feeding such a large retinue. Three weeks into the tour, ELP paid everyone in the orchestra their salaries but only had them perform in New York (I was lucky enough to see one of these three dates) and Montreal. Yes seems to have a lot of dates
in this tour packed pretty close together. Anyone know
whether the union rules have been eased?

[ric]

to me an orchestra is the next plateau for yes to be at.soon and onward would be very powerful. bring it on yes!!!

[sheaterry]

You're going to a Yes concert to see Soon and Onward? Not exactly Masterworks II is it?

[Alexander]

I hope the orchestra's as good as the one Rick Wakeman used for "Journey to the Centre of the Earth". That was the London Symphony Orchestra.

Sometimes orchestras are less than inspired. For example, once I heard the New York Symphony play "Ride of the Valkyries" and it sounded flat.:sleeping: Whereas a German orchestra will really cut loose on Wagner. In my view, whenever "Ride" sounds flat its a conspiracy.:thumbdown

"Awaken" already is a symphony. But it produced so many new sounds, how could an orchestra do it justice?:rolleyes:

[Mike Park]

Anyone planning on making the concert on Thurs. August 2 at the Chateau St. Michelle Winery???

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