Live In Perth Ben Folds with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra

• 1 Zak and Sara 04:59
• 2 Smoke 05:33
• 3 Fred Jones, Pt. 2 04:30
• 4 Gracie 02:50
• 5 All U Can Eat 04:43
• 6 Steven's Last Night in Town 04:25
• 7 Boxing 04:22
• 8 Annie Waits 04:07
• 9 Brick 04:37
• 10 Evaporated 05:32
• 11 Intro to Not the Same 02:02
• 12 Not the Same 05:06
• 13 The Ascent of Stan 05:08
• 14 Lullabye 06:29
• 15 Narcolepsy 06:37
• 16 Rock This Bitch 03:11
• 17 The Luckiest 04:55
• Total Runtime 01:19:06

Info zu Live In Perth

Features Ben Folds performing for the first time with the Western Australia Symphony Orchestra in front of sell-out crowds in Perth, Australia. Recorded in March, 2005, his piano and the 83 piece symphony deliver nearly 90 minutes of music to his fans in a way never heard or seen before. Bonus features include interviews and backstage footage.

„Collaborations between rock or pop performers and symphony orchestras usually yield little more than bombast and redundancy, but Ben Folds' Live in Perth is a delightful exception. Recorded in 2005 in an outdoor venue (described by Folds as "a luminous green petri dish") in that Australian city, the 80-minute concert finds the singer-songwriter-pianist in the company of conductor Simon Kenway and the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra--not the world's finest classical ensemble, perhaps, but one that's perfectly matched to his quirky, affecting style. Favoring material from his Rockin' the Suburbs and Whatever and Ever Amen CDs, Folds used local musicians for most of the arrangements, with the result that the orchestra enhances the songs rather than merely augmenting them. Most of all, of course, it's the songs themselves that carry the day. There's a hint of Stephen Foster's parlor ballads in Folds' approach, especially the several songs that are in waltz time; there's also an undeniable poignancy to character-driven tunes like "Fred Jones Part 2," "Steven's Last Night in Town," "Boxing" (about sportscaster Howard Cosell, a curious choice of subjects if ever there was one!), and "Not the Same" that's vividly brought to life by WASO's string and percussion sections in particular. By the time you get to "Narcolepsy," the twelfth of the 14 songs performed here and one that features a co-vocal by operatic tenor Stuart Haycock, you can't help but be won over by this thoroughly charming show.“ (Sam Graham)

Ben Folds, vocals, piano
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Simon Kenway, conductor
Graeme Lyall, saxophone
Stuart Haycock, tenor

Ben Folds
is widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation.

For over ten years he’s shared the stage with some of the world’s greatest symphony orchestras, performing his pop hits and critically acclaimed concerto for Piano and Orchestra. He was recently named as the first-ever Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center where he will bring pop artists together with the nation's orchestra to collaborate on new music.

Throughout his career, Folds has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and collaborative records with artists from Sara Bareilles and Regina Spektor, to William Shatner. His most recent album is a blend of pop and classical original works that soared to #1 on both the Billboard classical and classical crossover charts.

Folds continues to perform with symphonies and also cross country solo touring reminiscent of his earliest years, delivering a high energy rock performance using the intimacy of just a piano.

An avid photographer, Folds is a member of the distinguished Sony Artisans of Imagery, and earlier this year completed an assignment as a photo editor for National Geographic. And he’s an outspoken advocate for music education and music therapy as a member of Americans For The Arts, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Nashville Symphony.

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