{"id":933,"date":"2005-12-01T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=933"},"modified":"2024-04-03T17:23:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T17:23:39","slug":"its-a-power-chord-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=933","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a power-chord Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/44964-01.jpeg\" alt=\"Don\u2019t let the charming album art fool you. There will be pyrotechnics.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Don\u2019t let the charming album art fool you. There will be pyrotechnics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The death of hairspray rock and the heavy-metal invasion of the \u201980s left a plethora of musicians in need of a day, err, night job. Former Savatage member Jon Oliva, keyboardist Robert Kinkel, and producer\/musician extraordinaire Paul O\u2019Neill became the core songwriters of one of the longest running Christmas-themed institutions: the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. A heavy dose of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, a heaping dollop of classical music and some well-trained opera singers result in one of the season\u2019s biggest-selling live attractions. The touring troupe features a bevy of studio musicians that has included Testament\u2019s Alex Skolnick, Megadeth\u2019s Al Pitrelli and others. Since its inception in 1996, the orchestra has amassed enough material to make last year\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Christmas Trilogy<\/em>\u00a0box set. Now fans of both operatic rock and Santa Claus have something to wax nostalgic about every winter. Trans-Siberian Orchestra plays Arco Arena on Saturday at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets are $47.75 on the main floor, $27.75\u2013$47.75 for the lower level, and $27.75 for upper-level seats. All ages are welcome.<br>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of hairspray rock and the heavy-metal invasion of the \u201980s left a plethora of musicians in need of a day, err, night job. Former Savatage member Jon Oliva, keyboardist Robert Kinkel, and producer\/musician extraordinaire Paul O\u2019Neill became the core songwriters of one of the longest running Christmas-themed institutions: the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. A heavy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}