earMUSICAs part of Foreigner‘s 40th anniversary tour last year, the band played two special concerts with accompaniment from a 58-piece orchestra and 60-voice choir in May in Lucerne, Switzerland. Now, highlights from the sold-out shows will be released in various formats under the title Foreigner with the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus on April 27.
The concerts featured Foreigner playing many of its classic songs backed by the symphony and choir, with new orchestral arrangements created by Juilliard-trained cellist, pianist and composer Dave Eggar and producer, writer and percussionist Chuck Palmer.
Foreigner with the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus will be available on CD, as a double-LP vinyl set and digitally, while a CD/DVD digipak version will be sold exclusively via Walmart. In addition, an hour-long version of the show is being prepared for broadcast television.
“I could never have imagined when I set out to create Foreigner 40 years ago, that we’d still be touring around the world and performing the music we love all these years later,” says founding guitar/songwriter Mick Jones. “Dave Eggar and Chuck Palmer’s orchestral arrangements have shown us a new symphonic dimension of our music, which I hope our fans will enjoy.”
Foreigner will be bringing its orchestral show to the U.S. for a series of eight dates, running from a March 16 concert in St. Augustine, Florida, through an April 4 performance in Duluth, Minnesota. Accompanying the band will be the Dave Eggar Orchestra.
As previously reported, Foreigner’s 2018 itinerary also includes a lengthy U.S. summer trek with Whitesnake and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening, as well as a variety of headlining dates.
Here’s the Foreigner with the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus CD track list:
“Overture”
“Blue Morning, Blue Day”
“Cold as Ice”
“Waiting for a Girl Like You”
“Say You Will”
“When It Comes to Love”
“That Was Yesterday”
“Feels Like the First Time”
“Starrider”
“Double Vision”
“Fool for You Anyway”
“Urgent”
“Juke Box Hero”
“I Want to Know What Love Is”
And here’s the DVD track list:
“Overture”
“Blue Morning, Blue Day”
“Cold as Ice”
“Waiting for a Girl Like You”
“Head Games”
“When It Comes to Love”
“Say You Will”
“The Flame Still Burns”
“That Was Yesterday”
“Juke Box Hero”
“Starrider”
“Double Vision”
“Fool for You Anyway”
“Hot Blooded”
“Urgent”
“Feels Like the First Time”
“I Want to Know What Love Is”
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