Metallica’s done it. Wynonna’s done it. Even gangsta rapper Ice T has resorted to that most pretentious of pop clichés, going symphonic. So color me jaded when Sting announced his tour with the Queen’s Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and his intent to give his hits the classical treatment. A related album, “Symphonicities,” is also reportedly on the way.
My resistance to Sunday night’s season opening show at Auburn’s White River Amphitheatre was heightened by memories of the Police reunion of 2007. The trio’s triumphant two-night stand at KeyArena that year allowed me to temporarily purge …