PHOENIX SYMPHONY Plays LED ZEPPELIN

January 18, 2007

Chris Hansen Orf of Arizona's EastValleyTribune.com reports:

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."

Read the entire article at EastValleyTribune.com.

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