MORET: The heavy metal band Metallica recorded a double album with the San Francisco Symphony which has received rave reviews. And to promote its release, the headbangers recently performed with a 78- piece orchestra in New York City. <BR>

<BR>Mark Scheerer was there as Metallica made music. <BR>

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<BR>LARS ULRICH, METALLICA: If you say "symphony music" to most Metallica fans and to most rock fans, and they don't really know what it is you're talking about. <BR>

<BR>MICHAEL KAMEN, SYMPHONY ORCHESTRATOR: It doesn't matter to me if the classical critics don't want to come to a Metallica concert, but they're missing it.<BR>

<BR>MARK SCHEERER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's the sound check for Metallica and the St. Luke's Orchestra, under the baton of Michael Kamen. Metallica is going to show a Madison Square Garden audience what they recorded last spring with the San Francisco Symphony: "S&M" -- which in this case means "Symphony and Metallica." <BR>

<BR>Kamen, a classically-trained rock musician and film score composer, wrote the orchestral arrangements for the music of the premiere hard rock band of the last 15 years. He talks to the orchestra through headsets to cut through Metallica's thunder. <BR>

<BR>KAMEN: They're very relentless with their power and with their energy. An orchestra is also a very powerful weapon. And they're able to speak the same language. <BR>

<BR>SCHEERER: For the time being, there are no more of these metal- meets-classical summits planned, which for Metallica have been gratifying. <BR>

<BR>ULRICH: We mingle, we talk, you know -- everybody, hi, how are you doing? You go up and you talk. The percussion guy comes over and says, How do you do that? And I'd say, how'd you do what your doing? <BR>

<BR>SCHEERER (on camera): Can you honestly say that there is not one member of the orchestra going, why do I have to do this, but well, I'm a member of the company, so I have to? <BR>

<BR>ULRICH: Of course I can't say that. But at the same time, of course, I mean, how can you say that there isn't a member of Metallica once in a while isn't rolling his eyes and going, what the hell am I doing here with these bozos, do you know what I mean? <BR>

<BR>I think that hard rock and classic music, on it's best day, are not far from each other. SCHEERER (voice-over): Mark Scheerer, CNN Entertainment News, New York. <BR>

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