![]() ![]() When Procol Harum cut an album of its hits with the Edmonton Symphony in 1972, the group never quite jelled with the larger instrumentation. Not that this alone insured a great outcome. Metallica's collaboration with Kamen reworks proven material by the band. But that project found the rock act clumsily writing new classical music for the orchestra. They date from the dawn of heavy metal, when Deep Purple performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1969. ![]() Luke's.Ĭollaborations between metal bands and full orchestras aren't new. On Tuesday, the rock group will re-create that event at Madison Square Garden with New York's Orchestra of St. The two-disc set, titled "S&M," captures a concert from last April that pitted the formidable "S" of the San Francisco Symphony against the big "M" (Metallica) at the Berkeley Community Theater. In fact, Kamen found 2½- hours of things to say for a collaborative album that hits stores Tuesday. Their songs are so bloody long, there's endless room to find something to say." "And they've got lots of melody in the vocal and guitar lines that you can improvise with. "Metallica's music has a lot of tritones and big meaty textures that an orchestra can really dance around," he says. Not everyone who listens to a pummeling Metallica riff thinks, "I wonder how that would sound played on violin or bassoon."īut composer/orchestrator Michael Kamen found the connection obvious.
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