Starting ca. every February, I go to the websites of every opera house and symphony orchestra in Europe and America that I can find to see if they're doing anything really interesting that might be worth the expense and hassle of traveling to hear.
I was browsing the Tonkünstler Orchestra Vienna's 2015-16 brochure and amidst all the usual Haydn - Beethoven - Brahms, there was this:
February 17 (in St. Pölten) & 18 (the awesome Musikverein in Vienna), 2016
Yosuke Yamashita: Piano
Yutaka Sado: Conductor
Keith Emerson: Tarkus (Arrangement for Orchestra: Takashi Yoshimatu)
Yosuke Yamashita: Piano Concerto #1 "Encounter"
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
A quick Google search didn't turn up any performances of that arrangement before, it sounds interesting. Oh Keith, too bad you didn't use the orchestra in 1977 to do Tarkus and Karn Evil 9 orchestrated like you'd talked about for years. Still, we got to hear Knife Edge with orchestra!
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