Today we will hear from these artists demonstrating SYMPHONIC ROCK: 1 The Moody Blues and Days of Future Passed with the London Festival Orchestra 2 Rick Wakeman's rendition of "Cans and Brahms" the group Yes 3 "Your Time is Gonna Come" Led Zepplin 4 "I'm Free", from Tommy, as performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and Chambre Choir with Roger Daltry 5 "Cleetus Awreetus- AwrightUs"  Frank Zappa, and Grand Wazoo featuring a cast of characters…From the Grand Wazoo album 6 "I Remember Me", From the Like Children (Jan Hammer and Jerry Goodman) album M1 "The Day Begins" From the "Days  of Future Passed" album, the Moody Blues, with the London Festival Orchestra, conducted by Peter Knight. This song is side one track one of the vinyl LP. This album paints the picture of everyman's day, starting with The Day Begins, Dawn, The Morning, Lunch break, the Afternoon, Evening and the Night. One day of a man's life, on 7 tracks, on vinyl LP ! The seven tracks on Days of Future Passed spawned two hit singles: "Tuesday Afternoon"  and "Nights in White Satin" which hit No. 2… five years after the LP's original release!. The lyrics from Days  of Future Passed are true to the band's name, moody and blue  …such as this: "Cold hearted orb that rules the night, removes the colours from our sight, red is grey and yellow white. But we decide which is right. And which is an illusion?" One description of this fusion of pop and poetry and the classics is taken from album's liner notes, written by Hugh Mendl, the executive producer… he writes  …Moody Blues is "extending the range of pop music… and has found a point where it becomes one with the classics"… "Days  of Future Passed" was Produced in 1967 by Decca Record Company Ltd., using the then-state of the art DERAM sound system. The DERAM or so-called DERAMIC Sound System was an early stereo "all round sound" technique, that allowed more space between instruments. How was this achieved? This capability came from the use of, not just one four-track recording machine, but TWO four-track recording machines. Imagine - eight discrete recorded tracks. Before this, stereo was recorded from one four-track tape recorder. The doubling of recorded tracks provided the ability to put more sound "space" or "spacial realism" between performers on up to 8 recorded tracks, creating more of a soundscape when played on a "stereo", high fidelity sound system, and when you placed yourself between the two speakers. This was 1967 -- the early days of consumer audio. If you had "good" component stereo system, you must have been an audiophile, as those early component systems were very expensive indeed! A good component system included a stereo amplifier, stereo preamp, the reel-to-reel tape deck, a "good" LP turntable, tonearm, massive speakers too… This album credits the orchestral parts to "Redwave/Knight".  Well, "Knight" was conductor Peter Knight, while "Redwave" was an imaginary name representing the Moody Blues themselves. Knight built the orchestral parts around themes written by Hayward, Thomas, Pinder & Lodge, the Moody Blues.   M2 Full: Cans and Brahms  YES and their 1972 album "Fragile", Atlantic Recording Corp, . This is an extract from Brahms  Symphony No. 4 in E minor 3rd movement. A solo Rick Wakeman adaptation, on electric piano, grand piano, organ, electric harpsichord, and synthesizer. Rick Wakeman's modern instruments replace those traditional ones used in the Brahms Symphony No. 4, ---the strings, woodwind, brass, reeds, and contra bassoon, when the symphony was completed, in 1885. Some 87 years later, Rick Wakeman arranged this rendition. Even now… 126 years later….the 3rd is a catchy musical movement with left and right-hand parts for keyboard.