Missing Christmas Eve is the fourth album by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. The album was released on October 12, 2004, and was the last album in their "Christmas trilogy", with Christmas Eve and Other Stories (1996) and The Christmas Attic (1998) came before that. All three albums, as well as their The Ghosts of Christmas Eve DVDs, are featured in the The Christmas Trilogy box. In 2012 the Trans-Siberian Orchestra toured The Lost Christmas Eve for the first time and featured Rock Opera in more than 100 arena shows throughout North America. At the end of October 2013, TSO released a narrated version of Losing the Christmas Eve as they did in 2012 with Beethoven's Last Night .
The Lost Christmas Eve is a Gold certified by the Recording Industry Association of America in five weeks. On 27 March 2013, the album was licensed Double Platinum for the delivery of two million copies in the United States since its 2004 release. In November 2014, The Lost Christmas Eve was the best-selling Christmas/holiday album in America United during the Soundscan era of music sales tracking (March 1991 - present), has sold 2,380,000 copies according to SoundScan.
Video The Lost Christmas Eve
Storyline
The Lost Christmas Eve is the last installment in the TSO Christmas trilogy. "The record continues the tradition of two of its predecessors by telling the music story of loss and redemption, which includes a rundown hotel, an old toy store, a blues bar, a gothic cathedral and its respective inhabitants, whose fate is intertwined. York City.
The story begins with a teardrop of unlimited sadness falling from the sky toward a business man who forty years earlier has left his newborn son to a state-run institution, and how there is something about Christmas Eve that allows humans to correct mistakes that have we make in our life.
In this symphonic story, the youngest angel of God is once again sent on a mission to bring his Lord the name of the best person to continue the work of His Son on Earth. However, unlike his other journeys, the angel can only use his wings twice, once when he descends to Earth and once again when he leaves. Looking for a possible place to search, the angel decided to land in New York City.
As soon as he touched the ground, he saw a street artist weave a story about the Winter Witch Ball to a group of children. She then enters the hotel, and when she enters the ballroom, she meets with residents of the future and the past. Then he went and walked to the blues club, where the jazz band was playing music, finally the whole bar got together and started singing along with the band, except one who left without a word refusing to engage in this yule cheeriness..
The angel noticed that the man had left a trail of blood. The blood comes from the wound in the male soul combined with the unconscious tears that only an angel can see. As he followed the man, who had walked home from work, the angel peered into the man's heart to find the reason behind the wounded man's soul.
As the angel investigates the man's past, he sees that he does not always hate Christmas and even likes it like any other child. His family is a good Christian, and he has been taught that all human beings are created in the image of God. He finally got married, and his wife was pregnant. On the night of birth, everything went according to plan and normal. However, the man later noticed that there were many doctors rushing to his wife's room, but no one left. The doctor tells him that during birth, he has been bleeding and that, unfortunately, they can not save him. When a nurse, in an attempt to console her, gives her a surviving son, the baby looks sickly. The doctor explained that because the mother had a very severe blood bleeding, the baby had been cut from oxygen for so long that she suffered permanent brain damage; he will not be able to function as a normal person in adulthood and will be lucky if he learns to walk. Angered by this result, the man shouts towards heaven, that if man is made in God's image then he sees nothing about God in his son. The man returns the baby to the nurse and asks if the child can be placed in a state facility.
After seeing this, the angel released the man, who had not noticed the angel peeking inside him. He then met a young girl, wearing a Russian-style winter coat, in front of a toy store. The girl claimed to live with her parents in a twelfth-floor hotel room across the street. He asks if he has any children. The man replied simply and rudely, "No," but he knew that he was lying, and for the first time in decades he thought of him and his son. The man tells the girl to return to her room at a nearby hotel, where she claims she lives in a twenty-fourth-floor room twenty-four, then calls a taxi and leaves to find her son.
Finally, he arrived at the hospital, similar to where his son was born, and asked about his son. A nurse took her to a room where the son, now a grown man, was swinging babies born to addicted sleep addicted mothers. When the man asked if his son could speak, the nurse, realizing that it had been a long time since they met, said, "No, but he's a good listener." After years, father and son were reunited.
The father asks his son to move out of the compound where he lives to live with him, which he approves. They then take a taxi to the hotel near the toy store to find the girl and ask for the girl's room. But, strangely enough, there is no twelfth floor to the hotel, or even no children there all week. Confused, the man returned to the cabin with his son. The man then took out his briefcase and dumped his contents on the sidewalk including a folder containing his son's possessions including his wife's picture as a little girl he had never seen before. Her son gave her a puzzled look, to him explaining that she would quit her job to get a job at the hospital where her son worked. The boy cheerfully smiled.
When an angel returns to Heaven, to report to his Lord, the angel originally named the man's son, but then after a moment of hesitation was added the name of the narrator, the jazz player, and all the others he has seen, even the father. It is at this point that angels realize that everyone continues with the work of their Son when they are, "Do to others as you do to others."
Maps The Lost Christmas Eve
Track list
Reference to other media
- "Back to Reason (Part II)" is a sequel to the Savatage song "Back to a Reason", in their 2001 release Poets and Madmen .
- "Queen of Winter Night" is re-working of the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart opera The Magic Flute (in particular, Der HÃÆ'¶lle Rache kocht in Herzen aria meinem).
- "Wish Liszt" is a reworking "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" by Franz Liszt.
- "Christmas Canon Rock" is a reworking "Christmas Canon" (originally found in The Christmas Attic ), which in turn is a re-work of Canon Pachelbel on D. Unlike "Christmas Canon" "Christmas Canon Rock" does not feature a clear choir, it's better to use electric guitars, drum kits, bass guitar, solo guitar and solo female vocalist, and perform in A key instead of traditional D key.
- "Wizards in Winter" is an instrumental song that gained fame as a supporting music for Carson Williams home light show.
- "Christmas Jazz" is a reworking of the "Good King Wenceslas" holiday standard. "
Reception
The album is certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. By December 2014, it has sold 2,380,000 copies in the United States.
References
External links
- Home Trans-Siberian Orchestra
- Official Sites Missing Christmas Eve
- The Lost Story of Christmas Eve
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