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My Review of Styx DVD - “ Styx - with The Contemporary Youth Orchestra of Cleveland “

This concert is very unique and so much fun to watch !  I really love the idea of it . It was performed in May 2006. Styx , veterans of nearly 35 years of performing, joined forces with Cleveland’s Contemporary Youth Orchestra.   Except for the conductor, the Orchestra and Chorus students are all teens, from 13 to 19, and they all look like intelligent bourgeois kids. While watching this DVD concert, Ray and I were both reminded of the movie “ School of Rock “ with Jack Black .  This is like the real life version of School of Rock.  Something hilarious and fun.  These Orchestra students are all very excited and dancing and performing and looked so much having fun.  This is my second time to see a performance which combines a classic rock group with a classical music orchestra.  The other one I saw was the Japanese classic rock group The Alfee , in which they arranged their own music mixture with classical music such as Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Musorgsky, etc..