CONCERT PROGRAM

Stewart Copeland joins super fan Music Director Daniel Raiskin and your WSO, along with singers and guitars, in a high-energy orchestral evening that focuses on the epic rise of the iconic musician’s career — with Stewart himself on drums!

You’ll hear the The Police’s biggest hits, including Roxanne, ​Don’t Stand So Close to Me and ​Message in a Bottle, reimagined and arranged (or, as Stewart likes to say, “Deranged”) for orchestra!

Over his almost 50-year career, the legendary rockstar has built a dual legacy as a founding member of The Police and a composer for opera, ballet, and orchestra. “The derangement of those songs began as music score for a movie I made out of footage of the band that I had shot during our rise to glory,” he shares. “Film puts capricious demands on music, which is why these popular songs had to be deranged. I had to carve up the music to serve the scenes in the movie, and once the scalpel was out, a whole new frenzy of inspiration from Police music began.”