Score (album)

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Score
Live album by Dream Theater
Released	August 29, 2006
Recorded	April 1, 2006 - Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York
Genre	Progressive metal
Length	2:37:05
Label	Rhino Entertainment
Producer	Ethan Mesmer
Professional reviews
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Dream Theater chronology
Octavarium (2005) Score (2006) Systematic Chaos (2007)

Score
Video by Dream Theater
Released	August 29, 2006
Recorded	April 1, 2006 - Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York
Genre	Progressive metal
Length	2:44:20 (Disc 1) 1:27:42 (Disc 2)
Label	Rhino Entertainment
Dream Theater video chronology
Live at Budokan (2004) Score (2006) Chaos In Motion 2007/2008 (2008)

Score is a 3 CD/2 DVD combination by progressive metal band Dream Theater. It is a live album, recorded on April 1, 2006 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. This is the final concert of their 20th Anniversary Tour, labeled "A Very Special Evening with Dream Theater". The entire second half of the concert features a complete symphonic orchestra, dubbed "The Octavarium Orchestra", conducted by Jamshied Sharifi.

The album was released on August 29, 2006 and contains the entire concert setlist, including the encore. A condensed version of the concert was aired on VH1 Classic on August 25, 2006, 4 days before the release of the album and DVD.

The name of the album comes from the word "score", meaning the number twenty. It was chosen in order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Dream Theater. "Score" could also mean a conductor's musical score, parts of which are used on the packaging imagery. Given Octavarium's references to the numbers five and eight, it is interesting to note that at the time of Score's release, Dream Theater had, in their discography, five live albums and eight studio albums.

Two of the songs recorded on this album were previously unreleased: "Another Won", a song written by the band when they were still named Majesty, and "Raise The Knife", a song left off of Falling Into Infinity.

In Australia, the 3 CD boxset was released on September 2, 2006.

On October 15th, 2006, Score was certified platinum by the RIAA.

Track listing

CD

Disc one

Disc two

Disc three

DVD

Tracks 1 through 8 feature Dream Theater alone. Tracks 9 through 14 feature Dream Theater and The Octavarium Orchestra.

Disc one

1. "The Root of All Evil" – 9:32
2. "I Walk Beside You" – 4:10
3. "Another Won" – 5:40
4. "Afterlife" – 7:28
5. "Under a Glass Moon" – 7:27
6. "Innocence Faded" – 6:16
7. "Raise the Knife" – 11:51
8. "The Spirit Carries On" – 9:37
9. "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence" – 41:26
10. "Vacant" – 3:03
11. "The Answer Lies Within" – 5:36
12. "Sacrificed Sons" – 10:36
13. "Octavarium" – 27:29
14. "Metropolis" – 11:16
15. Credits – 2:53

Disc two

• "The Score So Far..." 20th Anniversary Documentary – 56:25
• Octavarium Animation – 3:06
• "Another Day" (Live in Tokyo – August 26, 1993) – 4:47
• "The Great Debate" (Live in Bucharest – July 4, 2002) – 13:37
• "Honor Thy Father" (Live in Chicago – August 12, 2005) – 9:47

Personnel

• James LaBrie – vocals
• John Myung – Bass
• John Petrucci – Guitar, backing vocals
• Mike Portnoy – drums, backing vocals
• Jordan Rudess – Keyboards, Continuum, and Lap Steel Guitar

Octavarium Orchestra

Conductor

• Jamshied Sharifi

Violins

• Elena Barere - (Concertmistress)
• Yuri Vodovos
• Belinda Whitney
• Avril Brown
• Katherine Livolsi
• Abe Appleman
• Joyce Hammann
• Karen Karlsrud
• Ann Leathers
• Ricky Sortomme
• Jan Mullen
• Carol Pool

Violas

• Vincent Lionti
• Adria Benjamin
• Judy Witmer
• Crystal Garner
• Jonathan Dinklage

Cellos

• Richard Locker
• Eugene Moye
• David Heiss
• Caryl Paisner

French Horn

• Bob Carlisle
• Dan Culpepper
• Larry DiBello

Bass Trombone

• George Flynn

Flute

• Pamela Sklar

B Flat Clarinet

• Ole Mathisen

Trumpet

• Jeff Kievit
• Jim Hynes

Percussion

• Gordon Gottlieb

RIAA Certifications

These statistics were compiled from the RIAA certification online database.^[1] They only apply to the DVD.

• Gold - October 11, 2006
• Platinum - October 11, 2006

Trivia

• The first and second setlists contain 8 and 5 songs respectively ("Metropolis" was played as an encore, instead of being part of the setlist), which fits the common uses of 8 and 5 in the band's album Octavarium.
• The second set has another occurrence of 8 and 5 - the epic "Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence" has 8 parts, and then 5 more songs (counting the encore) are played with the orchestra, making 13 total.
• Also, 5 of the 8 songs from Octavarium appear in the entire setlist.
• There are various numbers on Mike Portnoy's kit throughout the DVD. These refer to a mysterious number system found in the TV show Lost.
• Train of Thought ends with the song "In the Name of God," and the next studio album, Octavarium, starts with "The Root of All Evil". This is the same with Dream Theater's albums Live at Budokan and Score - Live at Budokan ends with "In the Name of God" and Score starts with "The Root of All Evil". (On the CD version of Score, a clip from "In the Name of God" is heard playing over the PA system before the band starts playing)
• During the performance of "Under a Glass Moon", John Petrucci's guitar rig mysteriously shut down leaving the song to continue with no guitar until around the end of the first chorus. It was later discovered that the rig failure was due to a camera-man being on stage and accidentally stepping on a switch that immediately silences Petrucci's entire guitar rig. In the Live DVD you can see Petrucci fiddle with his Pedalboard and then walk to the back of his cabinets. At this time the video focuses on the remaining 4 members of DT until Petrucci gets his rig working again. Subsequently, before the release of the CD and DVD, Petrucci recorded the missing guitar parts in a studio as to keep the flow of the show and song moving.
• During "Under a Glass Moon," the band plays the first part of the circus march.
• Before the show actually started, the title theme from "A Clockwork Orange" played over the sound system. For the most part, this happened at every tour stop in the Octavarium Tour. The theme would play and it would segue into the ending of "In the Name of God". The theme does not appear in the CD or DVD in any way, most likely due to the fact that if the intro music from "A Clockwork Orange" was included on the DVD release the composer of the theme, Wendy Carlos would be owed both performance and mechanical royalties as the composer of the music.
• Starting at track 3 and continuing to track 12 (track 4 of CD 2), Dream Theater play a song from each of their studio albums chronologically from The Majesty Demos to Octavarium, with the exception of "A Change of Seasons", which was an EP, not an album; and "Raise The Knife", that was left off of Falling Into Infinity and was never released.

References

External links

• Official site news update regarding the album