Keith Emerson’s 70th Birthday Tribute Concert

Keyboard legend Keith Emerson turned 70 years old yesterday, and was honored at The Madison Theatre at Molloy College in Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York last month.

Along with performing, Keith Emerson conducted his own composition "Glorietta Pass", orchestrated by Kjetil Bjerkestrand. The piece has never been recorded in orchestrated form.

In September 2011, Emerson began working with the renowned conductor Terje Mikkelsen, along with the Keith Emerson Band featuring Marc Bonilla and The Munich Radio Orchestra on new orchestral renditions of ELP classics and their new compositions.

In September of 2012, "The Three Fates" was premiered in Norway. (see video below).

And in 2014, Emerson was inducted into the Hammond Hall of Fame.

In answer to the question of whether Emerson, Lake & Palmer will ever reunite, Carl Palmer seemed to have put the idea to rest after telling ultimateclassicrock.com in 2013 that for him, their set at 2010′s High Voltage Festival was simply not up to the group’s lofty standards — despite a lengthy acclimation period beforehand.

After that, any hopes for a larger reunion tour were nixed.