I'm not afraid to admit I love Arlo Guthrie! He is great! & A dear & sweet man! I remember the year before he started doing the Symphony thing (we're friends) when he told me he was gonna do the Symphony thing & wear a tux, I thought "Huh?" But I somehow knew this was gonna work out for him. I love him on the Boston Pops show. The stuff without him in it wasn't my taste tho. I've seen that on tv & seen him do several Symphony shows & he is great with the Symphony. It's isn't traditional Symphony stuff, although the Symphony is the opening act with their symphonic stuff isn't my taste. He basically does the stuff his way with the Symphony backing him up. It's great! The reason he did it was a Symphony conductor who was a fan of his went up to him between a gig & asked him about doing gigs with the Symphony, telling him he had the idea of Arlo doing gigs with the Symphony. Arlo loves to try out new things so he said yes to the Symphony gigs & the rest is musical history. No matter whether he's with the Symphony or not you'll want to catch him in concert cuz he's great! :)