{"id":138,"date":"2006-12-05T17:20:48","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T22:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2006\/12\/05\/trans-siberian-orchestra\/"},"modified":"2006-12-05T17:21:22","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T22:21:22","slug":"trans-siberian-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2006\/12\/05\/trans-siberian-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans-Siberian Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sabrina and I went to see the <a title=\"Trans-Siberian Orchestra\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trans-siberian.com\/\">Trans-Siberian Orchestra<\/a> in Toronto last week.  We saw them last year too, and enjoyed it quite alot.  The same again this year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Toronto 2006\" title=\"Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Toronto 2006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/gallery\/d\/7822-2\/RIMG0024.jpg\" \/>Trans-Siberian Orchestra, for those who haven&#8217;t heard of them, does a bunch of classical music, Christmas songs, and original instrumentals driven by weedely-deedely electric guitar.  You may have seen a video circulating around of an <a title=\"Christmas Lights set to TSO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nD8_7c36yfw\">amazing Christmas light display<\/a> on a house, synchronized to music.  Guess who wrote that music&#8230;<br \/>\nThe show was substantially similar to last year&#8217;s.  The first half of the show is a connected series of songs telling a sappy Christmas story, joined by bits of narration by a deep-voiced guy straight out of some classic Christmas TV special.  The story was the same this year, as far as I could tell.  We don&#8217;t really enjoy that part of the show quite so much.<\/p>\n<p>The second half of the show is when they rock out, with heavy-metallized classics and cover tunes.  We love this part of the show.<br \/>\nThroughout, they put on the most elaborate and expensive light-show I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>We took a bunch of photos with our Blackberries, which are naturally crappy, but at least they give a flavour of the experience.  The best of them are <a title=\"Trans-Siberian Orchestra 2006 photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/gallery\/v\/TSO_2006\/\">here<\/a> in my gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabrina and I went to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra in Toronto last week. We saw them last year too, and enjoyed it quite alot. The same again this year. Trans-Siberian Orchestra, for those who haven&#8217;t heard of them, does a bunch of classical music, Christmas songs, and original instrumentals driven by weedely-deedely electric guitar. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}