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The Trans-Siberian Orchestra was created in 1996 by former heavy-metal band Savatage producer, composer and lyricist Paul O'Neill and partners Robert Kinkel and Jon Oliva.

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The performance explores tales of loss and redemption through music, a hard-hitting light show, lasers and fog machines. The two-and-a-half hour performance features aggressive metal stylings which have taken the group out of the smaller theaters to the larger arenas. The group's drummers, string octet, guitarists, bassists, keyboardists and vocalists are connecting with audiences on an emotional level rare in many of today's events.

The group's fan base has grown and diversified over the past decade, spanning six radio formats and an equally different audience. Even in the choice of clothing the audience can be seen in is telling, with metal fans in jeans, Savatage T-shirts and leather jackets; while more traditional (and slightly older) classical music and theater fans are more formally dressed. The group's melding of high-quality musicianship, poetic lyricism and superb story-telling attracts this broad following. The two-part performance begins with an 80-minute orchestrated tale of angels and Christmasy-rich themes. One of the most famous songs is "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24," inspired by the true story of a Sarajevo cellist that kept on despite the gunfire outside his home.

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra have become the act to go see during Christmastime, almost as much as A Christmas Carol or Cinderella, and their seasonal shows are creating a high demand for concert tickets. When discussing the band's phenomenal success and the fact that tickets for Trans-Siberian Railroad are hot property, band leader Paul O'Neill was asked last year by a reporter what the point of the seasonal get-togethers with his unique 30-piece band. O' Neill's honest answer was, 'We're trying to create the greatest art that we can.'

When pushed to provide his personal definition of "art," O'Neill, whose band is these days a solid fixture during the holiday season, replied that art's duty is to conjure an authentic reaction from somewhere inside the person who beholds it rather than a simple adornment in the inane corridors of life. "To me, there's three types of art - there's good art, there's bad art and there's great art. Bad art is a painting on a wall that you don't even notice. You just walk past it as if it was wallpaper. It's a song that you hear on the radio that just becomes background noise. It's a movie that you go to that just becomes a good excuse to eat buttered popcorn," O'Neill said.

"Good art will elicit an emotional response from the listener or viewer that they felt before. You see a picture of forest, and you remember the last time you went fishing with your dad. You hear a song about driving fast in your car, and you remember when you were 16 and you got your driver's license and you went over the speed limit. You hear a love song and remember the first time you fell in love. That's really, really hard to do.

"But great art - and this is the hardest thing to do - elicits an emotional response from the person who's exposed to it that they never felt before."

O' Neill explained that the process of penning a good song, one that truly sparks a deep response in others, is a very difficult one to pin down and formulate. He also stated his belief that certain simpler and basic emotions were infinitely easier to elicit than other, more complex ones. "When triggering emotional response, some are easier to trigger than others. The easiest one to trigger, and I think this is why so many people often do it, is the emotions of anger and hate. They're so easy to do that; any 4- or 5-year-old kid can do it. Like, a 5-year-old kid throws a rock and hits your head - you're angry at the little kid. Then, if he gets behind a fence where you can't get him and he hits you in the head again, for five minutes you hate the little bugger. Those are easy emotional responses to get. But the ones of joy, passion, empathy, sympathy, happiness, these are much tougher to trigger in a human being. Especially the one of laughter. The artists that I see that I admire the most, believe it or not, are comedians."

O' Neill described how comedians are able to release terminally ill people from the yoke of hopelessness and pain at least temporarily, by making them laugh and forget about their condition for a while. He said he saw that ability as an ultimate achievement in artistic performance, as it transported people from their realities to somewhere they wished they were, which was a very powerful thing.

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra features an amazing transformed version of what was once heavy metal rock music suddenly become Christmassy and full of song titles which reflect the silvery glow of that special time. It's a truly original twist in a world jaded by remakes and repeats, and tickets for Trans-Siberian Orchestra gigs are not easy to come by.