Artist: TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHE</br>genre: Christmas Music</br>product type: Compact Disc</br>Release Date: 13-OCT-1998</br>Returns Accepted?: Yes</br></br>Product Description</br></br>After three seasons of radio and sales success with Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24?? the Trans-Siberian Orchestra presents the second installment of a planned trilogy. The Christmas Attic is told through a blend of symphonic and rock music.<br>No Track Information Available<br><b>Media Type: </b>CD<br><b>Artist: </b>TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA<br><b>Title: </b>CHRISTMAS ATTIC<br><b>Street Release Date: </b>10/13/1998<br><Domestic or Import: </b>Domestic<br><b>Genre: </b>XMAS INSTRUMENTAL</br></br>Amazon.com</br></br>Fans of Andrew Lloyd Webber will discover he has a soul mate in one Paul O'Neill?? the "nductor" of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. A dyed-in-the-wool sentimentalist?? O'Neill presents this pop-rock tale from 1998 with all the glitz and glory of a Lloyd Webber Broadway show. Playing to the common themes of the season through a tale about a little angel sent to Earth to leave behind a gift?? O'Neill creates a big-sounding production heavy on lead guitars and orchestral filigree. There are pieces of familiar Christmas carols and hymns and a handful of unembellished acoustic numbers to offset the brighter parts of the musical melodrama. While his singers and players are all professional sounding?? O'Neill often mistakes sentiment as a grand gesture when it needs to be something less ambitious or noticeable. Nonetheless?? there's a TV special or Broadway show wrapped up in this attic and it won't go away until it gets done. <I>--Martin Keller</I></br><br/>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000AEDWW