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Minnesota Orchestra To Perform Led Zeppelin
wcco.com
January 16, 2007
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and ... Jimmy Page?
When you brainstorm the names of the composers in the Minnesota Orchestra's repertoire, you might not consider the likes of "Whole Lotta Love" and "Black Dog" worthy of standing alongside Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" or Maurice Ravel's "Bolero."
The programmers of the Minnesota Orchestra, on the other hand, hope some of the traditional concert patrons open their minds and ears to music fit for moshing.
In March, the Minnesota Orchestra is scheduled to perform a special, "one night only" program of the songs of Led Zeppelin at the Target Center on March 3 at 8 p.m.
Michael Sutton, a violinist with the orchestra, spent most of his work day rehearsing Schubert, but secretly he's humming a different tune in his head, even though he wasn't sure how the orchestra planned on pulling the concert off when they made their Zeppelin debut last year.
"My reaction was, 'Really? How's that going to work?'" he said, but added once they launched into the music, "everyone was just going nuts. It's a real rush."
Minnesota Orchestra president Tony Woodcock said the concert is meant to appeal to a broader audience than their usual repertoire.
"A rock group with the backing of a full symphony orchestra is a unique mix of symphonic and rock music," he said.
Compared to the complicated scores the orchestra is used to playing, such as Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," the music of Led Zeppelin can be learned by the musicians in less than a week.
"This is the kind of music that we really don't need to look at beforehand. It's fairly simple," said Sutton.
Also recalling the music of Stravinsky, which was once considered by some too controversial and inappropriate for concert halls, the band's fist-pumping tunes aren't music to every orchestra musician's ears.
"There are absolutely some members of the orchestra who said, 'I think I'll be using my time off for that gig,'" he said.
But for others, the mix of highbrow taste with pop culture will truly represent a "Stairway to Heaven."
Phoenix Symphony plays Led Zeppelin
By Chris Hansen Orf, Get Out
January 18, 2007
You’ve heard “Stairway to Heaven” a million times, but you’ve never heard it like this. And you’ve never heard the Phoenix Symphony — joined by a four-piece rock band — play anything close to the power and fury of music icons Led Zeppelin
But conductor Brent Havens believes the two go great together, and adds that anyone who thinks the symphony will “soften” the classic rock band’s sound in “The Music of Led Zeppelin,” Saturday’s non-subscription concert at the Dodge Theatre, is going to be surprised.
“People expecting sort of an elevator version of Led Zeppelin, they’re going to be disappointed,” says Havens, who scored Zeppelin’s music for the 52-piece orchestra. “But if you come to hear real Led Zeppelin music as I think it was intended to be heard, and then wrapped around an orchestra — it’s a wall of sound that they’ve never heard before.
“It is a rock show.”
First fusion
An educated musician who has composed scores for television movies, commercials and sports programming on ESPN, Havens first performed Zeppelin’s music with the Virginia Symphony in 1995. While delving into the intricacies of the band’s sound, he developed an admiration for their compositional inventiveness.
“Jazz and fusion was my big thing growing up,” says Havens, a graduate of the prestigious Berklee School of Music in Boston. “But I knew at least the (Led Zeppelin) songs you’d hear on the radio — you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing 'Whole Lotta Love’ or 'Stairway to Heaven’ — and I was a teenager at the time, and I’m thinking, 'Wow, that’s pretty hip.’ ”
Havens says he loved the challenge of transcribing the music.
“I don’t think (Led Zeppelin guitarist/songwriter Jimmy) Page was trained at any music schools, which was probably a good thing. He probably would have said, 'Wait, that’s not a legal chord — I can’t do that here!’ ”
Rock core
Led Zeppelin’s core elements — guitar, bass, drums and vocals — will be handled by a rock band put together by Havens. Vocalist Randy Jackson’s band Zebra, largely influenced by Zeppelin, had a string of hard-rock hits in the ’80s.
Of all the musicians onstage, Jackson has the toughest job, singing the multioctave notes made famous by Robert Plant.
“He’s the guy that came up with that whole style,” Jackson says of Plant’s distinctive wail. “He gets up there. I just have to really take care of my voice. It’s not something I can go out and just blast out.”
Jackson, who has been singing with “The Music of Led Zeppelin” for a decade now, says the response from Zeppelin fans has been great.
“Some of them are expecting it to just be a show with just the symphony, with me singing the vocals,” he says.
“But it’s a rock show with the symphony added to it. It just makes it a really big sound.”
>> “The Music of Led Zeppelin” starts 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, at Dodge Theatre, 400 W. Washington St., Phoenix. $22-$62. (602) 379-2888 or dodgetheatre.com
Zeppelin classics
Top five iconic tunes performed in “The Music of Led Zeppelin”
“Stairway to Heaven”(1971): Considered one of the greatest rock songs of all time, the tune starts slowly and acoustically before ending in a swirling Jimmy Page guitar solo (the best rock solo ever recorded) and Robert Plant’s wailing vocals.
“Heartbreaker” (1969): Built upon a monster blues riff and buttressed by the heavy bass of John Paul Jones and John Bonham’s vicious drumming, the tune features an adrenaline-fueled tempo change and a stand-alone guitar solo.
“Immigrant Song” (1970): One of Zeppelin’s shorter tunes (clocking in at a compact 2:25), the smoking octave-based riff and some of Plant’s best-ever vocal work make this tune — maybe the only Zep song without a guitar solo — one of the band’s heaviest.
“Going to California” (1971): Though often credited with inventing the heavy-metal genre, a third of Led Zeppelin’s music was decidedly nonmetal acoustic music with roots in English folk, and this song, featuring the mandolin work of Jones, is the most beautiful song in the band’s canon.
“Kashmir” (1975): Led Zeppelin’s most symphonic recorded song, this lengthy (8:28), thudding masterwork is one of Zeppelin’s first forays into world music — the classic riff is based on Middle Eastern scales — and was written during Plant and Page’s trip to Morocco in the early ’70s.
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