[News] Symphonic Fantasies Concert to Celebrate Music of Square Enix

I'll start crying should Kikuta appear! You can beg I'll be there!

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Hiho folks! It's amazing to read that so much people just for the concert will take a trip to Germany. Because of that Teioh and I were talking about the idea to do a GFF meeting before and/or after the concert. We could do some sightseeing, visiting German stores and pubs, talking about VGM and so on. What would you say about?

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Ticket ordering is also available in English here.

However, if anyone need help feel free to contact me.

Ah, and by the way: leo.org is one of the best German - English dictionaries in the web.

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Guys, don't forget the meet & greet with the composers.

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Hm, a leaked video? The hall looks definitely like WDR's Rundfunkhaus. But two points are confusing me. 1) The different camera views let it look more professional than secretly recorded and 2) it's march now, the concert takes place in september. Isn't it too early to do any practises yet?

Furthermore I can't say from what game the music is either.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Okay guys, just read the newsletter in my mailbox. It's the opening fanfare of Symphonic Fantasies, exclusively composed and orchestrated by Jonne Valtonen.

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Originally Posted by Phatcorns

By the way, looks like there is going to be a second concert date in Oberhausen.

Yo but as far as I know Oberhausen is a "better than nothing" solution for everyone who wants to attend the concert live.
König-Pilsener-Arena (the hall where SF takes place in Oberhausen) sounds for me like a multi-use-hall with worse acoustic than Kölner Philharmonie, prices are higher (for students at least) and don't know whether the composers will be in Oberhausen as well.

For everyone Cologne should be the first choice - even its one day later than the concert in Oberhausen.

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Don't worry, the hall is like a real concert hall should be. Regarding German Wikipedia again it has no parallel walls so it's build like an amphitheater and even the seats are designed to avoid any unexpected loss of the sound.

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Less than three months and we still wait for some title/composer info. :/ Hope there's an announcement soon so in the worst case I can order (read: import) some soundtracks to let sign them.

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Surprises are fine and even welcome but a sneak peak is never wrong, isn't it?

Well, let's wait for mid-July!

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Hmmm... I have the Kingdom Hearts OST to be signed. Hmm... would you say drammatica is worth enough to be grabbed?

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Last year it was really no problem to meet Yoshiro, Mitsuyoshi or even Hülsbeck. Well, maybe Uematsu (I'm really sure that he comes, in 99% of all cases he's there during such events) will be the toughest for a pic with him but signing goes easily.

Btw. I want a group photograph with all GFF members attending the concert and the composers.

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YES! YES! HELL YES! MITSUDA-SAN! YES! Awesome! You don't know how happy I am now.

Phatcorns: Sorry, mom. Order will be soon together with some Mitsuda and Uematsu stuff. :3

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WTF! Can somebody twitch me? Hell, Kikuta-san, that's really a bomb! Secret of Mana is a classic game in Europe so it's his music. Awesome! Thank you very much, Mr. Böcker!

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Did my order on Amazon.co.jp a few minutes ago. Concerto and Love Relaxation are on the way. :3

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Hahaha, this is going insane.

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Okay guys, need your help again. I don't have any soundtrack for Uematsu-san to be signed (please, don't throw rocks at me!). Well, that's not true. I have Chrono Trigger but it's not one of the works he claims any honor ("It was more like I was an additional or supporting composer. It’s Mitsuda’s work, not my work." Source (near the end of the interview)). So, as I'm going to order "drammatica" for Shimomura-san soon I want to add at least one soundtrack of Uematsu. Any recommendations? What about "Last Odyssey" or "Blue Dragon"? Me is not a hardcore fan so I'm not really willing to grab a monster mega Final Fantasy Bonus WTF Special Edition for over 9000 yen.

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Thanks for your quick response! As you mention it I guess FF6 OST is still purchaseable? I put it on my virtual list then.

Still open for further comments.

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Do I understand right that they want to play all the tracks of a series in one big suite? Hm, in the first interview with Thomas Böcker about Symphonic Fantasies he said there will be over 70 minutes of music. Divided by four means that each suite is about 17 minutes long. Sounds hard for the orchestra.

I have been preferred to mix the series'.

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Hey hey, don't die. That's no surprise as the original tracks have a lot of piano involved. So I wonder what changes/new elements Mr Valtonen built in to let sound it new or different.

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Five words: Into the Thick of It!

And yeah, some official English track names will be great. :ugly: (omg! GFF have no Ugly-Smilie!)

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Huh? The Oracle is featured? Could be interesting... And yeah, Into the Thick of It!

For the Chrono part I hope Schala's Theme will made it into.

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Originally Posted by LiquidAcid

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@Phatcorns: Which seat do you have?

Your nose will guide you!

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That remembers me to Goremaster from gamezone.de who has written news about the first announcements of Symphonic Fantasies, always talking about Chris Hülsbeck. He did it two or three times even I wrote everytime in the comments that SF is about music from Square Enix though. Don't know if wisdom has reached him since then.

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Guys, slowly we should start to plan if we want to do a GFF meeting. We can do one before and one after the concert.

Problems:

Before:
* The Norwegian faction arrives rather late in Cologne (approx. 18:30 CEST)

After:
* Some of us may take part in interviews with the composers

But before we discuss about solutions it should be clarified who is interested in at least one of the meetings. So please everybody write down when you want to take part!


Attendees of the meeting before the concert:

• Hamu-Sumo
• Teioh
• ZiggyGo
• Dallista
• LiquidAcid

Attendees of the meeting after the concert:

• Hamu-Sumo
• Teioh
• AkumuHau & friends
• ZiggyGo
• Kishin (unsure)
• LiquidAcid

And to clarify: We talk about the concert in Cologne on September 12th!

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