NASHVILLE |DATE: NOVEMBER 22, 2010
FROM: MARCEE RONDAN/MITCH SCHNEIDER/ANGELA VILLANUEVA
YANNI—
A LIVING LEGACY
A Musical Journey from Past to Present
A true global ambassador for peace, good will, and understanding, YANNI is one of the most recognizable composer performers of our time. His is, without a doubt, a musical phenomenon–a rare artist whose music defies borders and boundaries. His music speaks to people of all races and all nations.
YANNI has accumulated more than 35 platinum and gold albums globally, with sales totaling over 20 million copies, including the double-platinum 1997 Tribute album, which sold more than a million albums within six weeks of its release, and his 1994 Live at the Acropolis album, which has sold more than 7.5 million copies worldwide (5 million in North America). He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time.
The Tribute DVD debuted at #2 on the Music Video charts and earned double-platinum status, while the Live At The Acropolis DVD is six-times platinum, the second-best music video of all time. More than half a billion people around the world have seen his TV specials.
YANNI has performed live in concert before in excess of two million people in more than 20 countries around the world. His North American concerts tours in 1995, 1998 and 2003-2005 each finished in the Top 10 concert tours of the year, as ranked by Performance Magazine and Pollstar, as well as selling out 10 consecutive shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
YANNI–A Living Legacy, takes its viewers on a narrated musical journey from past to present performances. Interviewed in the composer’s studio, YANNI reflects on the extraordinary moments in his career to give his audience a candid look at the performances that made him famous. This special event features his 1993 Live at the Acropolis concert in the 2000-year-old Herod Atticus Theater in Athens, still considered one of the top PBS fundraisers of all time. Also featured are the history-making performances at the Taj Mahal and the Forbidden City. YANNI shares his experience as the first westerner allowed to perform at these venerable monuments. Other performances include the Royal Albert Hall in London, Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, and The Forum at Mundo Imperial in Acapulco.
Currently embarking on a sold out South American tour while putting the finishing touches on two new CD’s and with a North American tour planned for 2011, this prolific composer/performer has no plans of stopping anytime soon.
The program features:
• “Desire”
• “Keys To Imagination”
• “Aria”
• “Felitsa”
• “Within Attraction”
• “Prelude”
• “Deliverance”
• “Nightingale”
• “Santorini”
• “The Storm”
For a complete list of PBS stations airing YANNI–A Living Legacy, please click here:
http://www.idesignprod.com/yanni_pbs_station_list.pdf
Producers: YANNI-Wake Entertainment and Levin Productions
Executive Producers: YANNI and Ric Wake
Director and Editor: Matthew Levin
Producer: Robert Murray
Director of Photography: Whitney Padgett
Co-Producers: Alicia De Anda, Don Bath, Travis Meck, and Anthony Stabile
Sound Post Production: YANNI, Silvio Richetto, and Travis Meck
MSO PRESS CONTACTS:
Marcee Rondan 818-380-0400 x248 marcee@msopr.com
Mitch Schneider 818-380-0400 x235 mschneider@msopr.com
Angela Villanueva 818-380-0400 x232 avillanueva@msopr.com
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