Elvis Schoenberg's Orchestre Surreal is a "twenty-five-piece group of daring top Los Angeles studio musicians, that fuse classical, jazz, rock hip hop, world music and just about anything else," founded in 1997. "Elvis Schoenberg" is the persona of Los Angeles-based composer Ross Wright, who has been described as "either a musical madman or an eclectic genius." The group has marched in the Pasadena Doo-Dah Parade. In a 2003 review of a performance at the Ford Amphitheater, the Los Angeles Times wrote that
Not merely content to perform shotgun marriages between the likes of Wagner and Nancy Sinatra, Mussorgsky and Santana, etc., [Ross Wright] (er, [Elvis Schoenberg]) took on a more ambitious task Friday night at the Ford Amphitheatre -- a "book musical" of a sort called "Symphony of the Absurd!" It was, as Ed Sullivan would have said, "a really big shew" in which Wright incorporated many of his set pieces and some newer numbers into a hellzapoppin' revue, with an eclectic assortment of dancers, sexy girls, pulp novel narrations, lighting effects, dry ice.
Ross Wright AKA Elvis Schoenberg received a Masters of Music degree from California State University Los Angeles in addition to a variety of other degrees and certifications.
1- these boots are made for walking (hazelwood / strauss) (Muestra en Sampler)
2- interlude
3- live and let die (paul & linda mccartney / carl orff)
4- interlude
5- evil ways (clarence henry / modest mussorgsky)
6- interlude
7- nessun dorma (giacomo puccini)
8- interlude
9- blue suede shoes (carl perkins)
10- interlude
11- takin' care of business (randy bachman / georges bizet)
12- interlude
13- little wing (jimi hendrix)
14- interlude
15- jive talking (barry gibb, robin gibb, maurice gibb)
16- interlude
17- the stompin' five (ludwig von beethoven)
Ross Wright as "elvis schoenberg": conductor, arranger, vocals
Angela Carole brown as "the fabulous miss thing": vocals
Daniel O'callaghan as "dangerous dan": vocals
Chantelle Louise Krenn: soprano vocalist
Tom Vos: violin
Ted Falcon: cioling
Elizabeth Chorley: violin
Rosio Arron: violin
Patrick Morgan: violin
Caroline Buckman: viola
Alma Lisa fernandez: viola
Sara Rilling: viola
John Krovoza: cello
David Takahashi: cello
Jean Marinelli: french horn
Danielle Ondarza: french horn
Ron King: trumpet
Tim Wendt: trumpet
Larry Williams: trumpet
John Grab: trombone
Brent Fischer: electric bass
Mike Faue: percussion
Chris Wabich: drums and percussion
Ken Rosser: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, pipa
Terry Landrey: flute and tenor saxophone
Robert Kyle: flute and tenor saxophone
David Arana: piano and keyboards
Jennifer Hall: piccolo, flute, alto and bartitone saxophone
Mike Nelson: clarinet, bass clarinet, alto and baritone saxophone
