Dare to Dream (Yanni album)

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Dare to Dream
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Studio album by
Yanni
ReleasedMarch 17, 1992
Genre Instrumental
Length59:05
Label Private Music
Producer Yanni
Yanni chronology
Romantic Moments
(1992)		Dare to Dream
(1992)		 In My Time
(1993)

Dare to Dream (stylised as DARE to dream) is the eighth studio album by Greek keyboardist and composer Yanni, released in March 1992 on Private Music. The album peaked at number 2 on Billboard's Top New Age Albums chart and at number 32 on the Billboard 200 chart in the same year. [1] It went gold within two months of its release and was nominated for a Grammy.

Contents

Background

Yanni says that the title of the album, Dare to Dream, "comes from the realization that, people not only don't go after their dreams but they're actually afraid to dream at all. If you're afraid to dream, nothing will ever come to you". [2] [3]

The album was followed by the sell-out, 65-city Dare to Dream concert tour which challenged audiences "not to be afraid to dream". [4] On the concert tour, Yanni also advised the fans not to let their worries rob them of the joy of life, and encourages them to "dare to dream" - which is, of course, the theme of the album. [5]

Album

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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In a review by Johnny Loftus, "Dare to Dream is Yanni's first new material in three years and finds the new age composer fitting his unflinchingly romantic arrangements into tighter song structures. The surging synth backgrounds, insistent piano lines and general grandiosity that mark Yanni's sound are still intact. But tracks like "A Love for Life" or "Nice to Meet You" harness that famously epic energy in smaller stables. This tactic works especially well on the latter track, which is led by the wail of an electric fiddle. Elsewhere, Yanni plucks the heartstrings with "In the Mirror" and "So Long My Friend" – two weepy ballads that cascade like sheets of rain on a lonely city street. The seven-minute "You Only Live Once" becomes the only really epic piece on Dare to Dream, and it's pleasant enough. However, it illustrates the main drawback to Dream, which is Yanni's reliance on the shifting sands of synthesizers to do his bidding." [7]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Once Upon a Time"3:51
2."A Love for Life"5:07
3."Nice to Meet You"5:35
4."So Long My Friend"3:47
5."You Only Live Once"7:19
6."To the One Who Knows"5:37
7."Face in the Photograph"3:47
8."Felitsa"4:45
9."Desire"5:00
10."Aria"3:58
11."A Night to Remember"5:47
12."In the Mirror (first released on Romantic Moments, one month earlier)"4:07

Personnel

(Personnel as described in CD liner notes.) [9]

The Dare to Dream concert tour

[10]

Dates

April – June 1992

Cities

65 cities

Set list

Selections from Reflections of Passion , In Celebration of Life and Dare to Dream

The band and concert

This 2 hour and 15 minute concert is performed completely live and showcases the broad range of Yanni's music through a unique marriage of acoustic and electronic sound. Yanni and two additional keyboardists (Bradley Joseph and Julie Homi), are backed by a rhythm section headed by Charlie Adams on drums, with Michael Bruno on percussion and Osama Afifi on bass, and a string section featuring Charlie Bisharat and Karen Briggs on violin, and Sachi McHenry on cello. [10] A highlight of the concert was his piece dedicated to his mother. His band left the stage; the spotlight focused on Yanni at the piano, surrounded just by the violinists and cellist. Yanni introduced the piece sharing a story from his childhood. When he was a boy, his mother would always sing a song to him before he would go to sleep. The cello in this touching composition resembled a human voice singing. Also, he dedicated his song, "To the One Who Knows" from his "Dare to Dream" CD to his father, calling him his "greatest teacher in life". From his father, he learned about unconditional love. [5]

Tour production

Special Thanks

Tour dates

[11] [12]

DateCityCountryVenue
April 4, 1992 Charleston United StatesGaillard Performance Hall
April 5, 1992 Atlanta Fox Theatre
April 6, 1992 Birmingham Alabama Theatre
April 8, 1992 St. Petersburg Mahaffey Theater
April 9, 1992 Fort Lauderdale Broward Center for the Performing Arts
April 10, 1992 Orlando Bob Carr Performing Arts Center
April 11, 1992 Jacksonville Florida Theatre
April 12, 1992 Pensacola Saenger Theatre
April 15, 1992 Charlotte Ovens Auditorium
April 16, 1992 Raleigh Raleigh Memorial Auditorium
April 17, 1992 Asheville Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
April 18, 1992 Knoxville Tennessee Theatre
April 21, 1992 Allentown Symphony Hall Theatre
April 22, 1992 Fairfax GMU Center for the Arts
April 23, 1992 Harrisburg Zembo Mosque
April 24, 1992 Pittsburgh Palumbo Center
April 25, 1992 Rochester Auditorium Theatre
April 26, 1992 Upper Darby Tower Theater
April 28, 1992 Hartford The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
April 30, 1992 Asbury Park Paramount Theatre
May 1, 1992New York City Radio City Music Hall
May 2, 1992 Boston Orpheum Theatre
May 3, 1992 Providence Providence Performing Arts Center
May 4, 1992 Schenectady Proctor's Theatre
May 7, 1992 Columbus Palace Theatre
May 8, 1992 Noblesville Deer Creek Music Amphitheatre
May 9, 1992 Cleveland Palace Theatre
May 10, 1992 Dayton Dayton Memorial Hall
May 11, 1992 Grand Rapids DeVos Performance Hall
May 13, 1992 Toronto Massey Hall
May 15, 1992 Detroit Fox Theatre
May 16, 1992 Chicago Chicago Theatre
May 17, 1992ChicagoChicago Theatre
May 19, 1992 Louisville Macauley's Theatre
May 20, 1992 Milwaukee Riverside Theater
May 21, 1992 Minneapolis Orpheum Theatre
May 22, 1992MinneapolisOrpheum Theatre
May 26, 1992 Madison Oscar Mayer Theatre
May 27, 1992 Omaha Omaha Civic Auditorium
May 28, 1992 Tulsa Brady Theater
May 30, 1992 Dallas McFarlin Memorial Auditorium
May 31, 1992 Houston Jones Hall
June 3, 1992 Santa Fe Paolo Soleri Amphitheater
June 4, 1992 Denver Denver Center for the Performing Arts
June 6, 1992 Salt Lake City Symphony Hall
June 8, 1992 Tucson Tucson Community Center
June 10, 1992 Phoenix Symphony Hall
June 11, 1992 San Diego Copley Symphony Hall
June 12, 1992Los Angeles Wiltern Theatre
June 13, 1992Los AngelesWiltern Theatre
June 17, 1992 San Jose Center for the Performing Arts
June 18, 1992 Santa Rosa Luther Burbank Center for the Arts
June 19, 1992 Sacramento Sacramento Theatre Company
June 20, 1992 Berkeley Berkeley Community Theatre

Miscellaneous

The music "Once Upon a Time" was adopted by TVB as the background music of world weather from July 28, 1991, to December 31, 2009.

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [13] Platinum100,000^
United States (RIAA) [14] Platinum1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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  2. ↑ YanniHIStory (2012-04-16), YANNI - Yanni interview - Private Music 1990, archived from the original on 2021-12-18, retrieved 2020-06-12
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  4. ↑ Yanni (1993). Yanni Live, The Symphony Concerts 1993 - Official concert program.
  5. 1 2 "YANNI'S ZESTY PERFORMANCE IS MUSICAL SMORGASBORD THAT CELEBRATES LIFE, LOVE". Deseret News. 8 June 1992. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  6. ↑ AllMusic
  7. ↑ Johnny Loftus. "Review of Dare to Dream". AllMusic . Retrieved 2015-05-06.
  8. ↑ Young, Monalisa. "Aria, By Yanni" . Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  9. ↑ Dare to Dream (CD liner). Yanni. Private Music. 1992. 01005-82096-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  10. 1 2 3 Dare to Dream – Official concert program. Yanni. 1992.
  11. ↑ Yanni 1992 Tour Itinerary
  12. ↑ "Yanni 1992 Tour Dates". setlist.fm. 26 September 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  13. ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Yanni – Dare to Dream". Music Canada . Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  14. ↑ "American album certifications – Yanni – Dare to Dream". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 31 October 2018.
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