Open Heart Symphony
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| Studio album by Spirit of the West | ||||
| Released | 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1995 | |||
| Genre | Folk rock | |||
| Label | Warner Music Canada | |||
| Producer | Spirit of the West | |||
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Open Heart Symphony is a 1996 album by Spirit of the West, in collaboration with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
The band recorded two shows with the orchestra on May 12 and May 13, 1995 at the Orpheum Theatre. The shows included several renditions of the band's best known songs, and an entire album's worth of songs written specifically for the symphony shows. The new songs were compiled on the album Open Heart Symphony; several of the hits performed at the shows appear on the band's 1999 compilation Hit Parade.
The shows were also taped for broadcast on the Canadian arts channel Bravo!.
A studio version of "Kiss and Tell" appeared on the 1997 soundtrack album to the film The Hanging Garden, and a previously unreleased demo version was released on the band's 2008 compilation album Spirituality 1983–2008: The Consummate Compendium.
"Let the Ass Bray" was reportedly written after Mann and Kelly attended a Radiohead concert at which Thom Yorke angrily refused an audience member's request to play "Creep" even though it was Radiohead's only notable hit single at the time.
The photo used on the album cover was taken in the "Confederation Lounge" at the Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton, Alberta. The large painting hanging above the band members' heads is a reproduction by Frederick Challener of the famous "Fathers of Confederation" portrait originally painted by Robert Harris. As the original Harris painting was lost in the Parliament fire of 1916, this reproduction is one of only two versions depicting an historic event in Canadian history.
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