On November 9, the Edmonton Symphony is reliving its storied youth and inviting British prog rock band Procol Harum to join them for one last performance, almost 40 years after their first joint performance. Their first collaboration in 1971 turned into the best-selling album “Procol Harum Live in Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra”, which peaked at #5 on the US Billboard chart, became the first cross-over collaboration with an orchestra to sell Gold, and eventually achieved Platinum status.

In 1992, the Edmonton Symphony invited Procol Harum and the Greenwood Singers back for a 20th anniversary nostalgia-filled reunion concert. “The orchestra had been in and out of the charts worldwide with Conquistador since 1972. So we had to play it about four times in ’92. The crowds just would not go home,” recalls Gary Brooker, founder of the band.

To learn more about the event, you can visit the ESO’s website here.