(A SPECIAL CLASSICAL/ROCK CONVERGENCE EPISODE). First up
Arthur Fiedler conducts the
Boston Pops and does a glorious rendition of
The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" from the remastered
Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Play The Beatles (
iTunes,
Tower). Then Dallas'
Polyphonic Spree, who combine classical orchestrations and rock music in a most creative way on ever song, show off their skills with "One Man Show" from their new album T
ogether We're Heavy (
iTunes,
Amazon,
Other Music). Next was
Elvis Costello with "Pluck One" from his debut album as a orchestral music composer called
Il Sogno, which comes out next week. It features music composed by
Elvis Costello, with
Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the
London Symphony Orchestra, you can download one track from it early from
iTunes, or pre-order it from
Amazon. Lastly we heard
Steven Avila's classical version of
Weezer's "Photograph" which he released on a CD of orchestrated
Weezer songs. Mysteriously, this CD has vanished from the internet making it hard/impossible to obtain. You can find the weezerclassicalcd.com website in the
wayback machine, and perhaps if you email the address on that site (
deadytes@cs.com) you can still buy it directly from him or something. In the meantime, I'm just posting the song so
you can download it. It's a 192k MP3 file.