V? v a Trans-Siberian By Josh Bollinger COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER What do you call a mix of classical music sophistication with a modern rock spin and a Pink Floyd light show? A Trans-Siberian Orchestra show. TSO will perform at 8 p.m. Friday at the Bryce Jordan Center. Tickets are $28.50, $49.50 and $59.50. Bryce Jordan Center Marketing Director Bemie Punt said the TSO show has been a long time in the malt. ing. He said TSO traditionally plays in other cities in Pennsylvania and the BJC has tried to book the orchestra in the past, but things just never worked out until last summer. “It took over 10 years for this to materialize,” Punt said. “The commu nity has definitely embraced the show.” Punt said he’s noticed the orches tra’s cult following many of those attending Friday have probably seen TSO before. He said he hasn’t seen a fanbase this strong since Pearl Jam and the Dave Matthews Band performed at the BJC. ' “They’ll keep seeing them and see ing them,” Punt said. Nadine Zielewski (senior-nursing) has gone to TSO concerts since she was a little kid. Zielewski said she always goes to TSO’s shows with her mother when they come to their hometown of Erie evetyyeai: She described TSO’s music as a tra ditional kind of Christmas music, but better because it incorporates modem elements that add a little “spice.” “It’s the remix to the remix,” Zielewski said. Keyboard player for the ensemble Derek Wieland said the concert’s vari ety is what makes the orchestra so special. He said there’s something for every body from big symphonic parts to straight up rock sections. The orchestra is a progressive rock symphonic band, he said “It really draws from the best of everything, that’s what makes the show so amazing,” Wieland “People walk out of the show trans formed.” Paul Barsom, an associate professor, said TSO’s mixture of gen res makes the music more aecessfote. He said he admires anyone who tries to mix classical bmm» and he’s glad peopte keep music. ‘Tm a rock musician arwj a t»lagni«»al musician, so you would think that something like that would appeal to me,” Barsom said. If you go What Trans-Siberia When: 8 p.m. Frida Where: Bryce Jorda Details: Tickets are $49.50 and $59.5! “But there’s some to combine hard ro< classical music that both of them kind of Still, Barsom sai serves an important who are somewhat i and classical music devoted to either one Joseph Noll (set said the more contei TSO’s music reache generations and he appreciate classical i “By doing that, yi old songs, tunes that sick of hearing,” Noli - Wieland said TSO fens of all ages. “It’s amazing beca generations of a Wieland said. “Great music Ls mi of transcend.” WSeiand said the
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