It was on the same exact date last year that a friend and I drove to Wichita, Kansas to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra perform their annual Christmas concert. This year, we were fortunate enough to have the show come to the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City.
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If you have never heard the TSO or been to a TSO concert, you are missing one of the greatest holiday treats of our generation. Simply put, it is an evening of sensory overload filled with bombastic guitar riffs, a driving beat, a soaring string section, incredible voices, and stories in song which bring the spirit of Christmas to the heart and mind.
I had brought Mary to a concert in Dallas two years ago, so she knew what to expect. But we also brought two other couples with us who had never seen TSO before. Last night\’s show was exceptional and all of us had a wonderful time.
As they have done in previous years, the first portion of the show was a performance of their first CD, Christmas Eve and Other Stories. If this CD isn\’t in your collection, stop reading now, click the link above, and buy it. There is still plenty of time to enjoy it this holiday season.
Bringing the crowd to their feet at the end of the first act, the band loosened up and launched into songs from The Christmas Attic, The Lost Christmas Eve and Beethoven\’s Last Night. They also did a rousing version of A Little Help from My Friends, featuing a vocalist who would do Joe Cocker proud.
As icing on the cake, the pyrotechnics, lasers and light show would be first class for the very best of rock shows. Great stuff!
TSO is talking about launching out on a Spring/Summer tour to perform Beethoven\’s Last Night in its entirity. I will be there!