James Owen Presents Classical
Mystery Tour: A Tribute To The Beatles
Information courtesy of | Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra
To perform in concert with the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra On April 27 at Rudder Auditorium – Concert Features Dozens of Beatles Songs Performed Exactly As They Were Recorded
What would The Beatles have sounded like if they had the chance to perform live in concert with a symphony orchestra?
Find out what The Beatles might have sounded like live with a symphony orchestra when Classical Mystery Tour performs with the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra on April 27 at 5 PM in Rudder Auditorium.
The four musicians in Classical Mystery Tour look and sound just like The Beatles, but Classical Mystery Tour is more than just a rock concert. The show presents more than two dozen Beatles tunes performed exactly as they were originally recorded. Hear “Penny Lane” with a live trumpet section, experience the beauty of “Yesterday” with an acoustic guitar and string quartet, enjoy the classical/rock blend on “I Am the Walrus,” and relish the cascading crescendos on “A Day in the Life.”
From early Beatles music on through the solo years, Classical Mystery Tour is the best of The Beatles like you’ve never heard them before. You might say it’s the best show the Beatles never did!
Tickets are $65 for adults and $10 for students and children and are available by calling the MSC Box Office at 979-845-1234 or by visiting www.boxoffice.tamu.edu. For more information, visit https://bvso.org/show-item/classical-mystery-tour/.
Join us before the concert at 4 pm in the Rudder Exhibit Hall for a pre-concert reception with a cash bar and light appetizers.
ABOUT CLASSICAL MYSTERY TOUR
Since its initial show at the Orange County Performing Arts Center (now renamed the Segerstrom Center for the Arts) in 1996, Classical Mystery Tour has performed with more than 100 orchestras across the United States and around the world, receiving accolades from fans and the media. The Los Angeles Times called the show “more than just an incredible simulation…the swelling strings and soaring French horn lines gave the live performance a high goose-bump quotient…the crowd stood and bellowed for more.”
“We really make an effort to sound exactly like the originals,” explains James Owen, the founder of Classical Mystery Tour who also portrays John Lennon in the show. “The orchestra score is exact, right down to every note and instrument that was on the original recording. On ‘Got to Get You Into My Life,’ we have two tenor saxes and three trumpets. That’s what it was written for, and that’s what we use. And on ‘A Day in the Life,’ that final big orchestra crescendo sounds amazing when it’s played live.”
The release of The Beatles’ 50th anniversary edition of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” the addition of a Beatles station on Sirius Radio, and the chart-topping success of Paul McCartney’s new album proves that The Beatles are more popular than ever. Because many Beatles fans never had the opportunity to experience a live Beatles show, Classical Mystery Tour offers that live experience in the comfort of a concert hall.
“We have some real show-stopping numbers,” says Owen. “I wish I could actually be in the audience to see and hear this show, because the power of the emotional and nostalgic connection this music has with audiences is hard to put into words.”
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About the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra: The BVSO™ is a non-profit performing arts organization with the mission to maintain a symphony of high artistic standards, and to promote the musical arts for cultural and education purposes in the Brazos Valley. For more information about the Symphony, please visit the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra Website at www.bvso.org.
The Brazos Valley Symphony Society wishes to recognize and thank our programming sponsors, grant funding providers, and charitable trust contributors:
The Clearfield Family, the Gilbert & Thyra Plass Charitable Trust, The Ham Family Trust, The Rea Charitable Trust, Amarillo National Bank, Becky & B. Don Russell, and Dreamers Land & Minerals, Inc.
This program made possible in part through Hotel Tax Revenue funded from the City of College Station through The Arts Center. This project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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