PLAY! A Video Game Symphony

Wow, I didn't realize there was a concert scheduled for Philly at the end of July. Hooray! Hopefully I'll be able to make it to that one; this sounds like it would be an amazing event.

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The site lists a Sept. 30 concert at the Hummingbird Centre in Toronto. Or are you talking about the composers actually being there?

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They just announced that Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (Sega composer) is going to be at the Chicago premiere as well.

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Wow. I wonder what date I should order tickets by if I want to be sure I get them for the July 27th Philly show?

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That sounds amazing. I wish I could've been there. :-/

I'm hoping to see the July 27th one in Philly.

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Well, I just ordered tickets for the July 27th show in Philly. Can't wait!

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Sounds like it was a wonderful concert. This just makes the wait for the July 27th Philly concert even harder!

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Originally Posted by Cogo

Music from Shadow of the Colossus will be performed in Detroit! I think this is a very good choice. Kow Otani's masterpiece of soundtrack really deserves this.

Awesome! I hope they play it at the Philly concert as well.

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I'm so psyched for the Philly concert tomorrow night. Anyone else from GFF going?

Oh, and...

PLAY! to feature music from famous Castlevania-series

That's awesome to hear.

What's not awesome to hear is that the Philly concert will feature music from "Prey." I have no idea how Prey's music is (or what it's like), but I can't help but feel like we're getting gypped when other cities get stuff like Shadow of the Colossus and Castlevania. Oh well.

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Just got in from the Philly concert a little bit ago. I'm gonna be lazy and copy and paste my post from another forum, since it's so late, and I don't feel like writing more.

Originally Posted by Mr. Lemming

We got the WORLD PREMIERE of the Prey orchestral suite (rolleyes) and as an encore they played the theme from Blue Dragon, which I honestly wasn't expecting and was a pleasant surprise.

Yeah, I was bummed about Prey being Philly's exclusive music. I hadn't known it was Soule, though. It was ok.

I figured they would do an encore, I just wasn't sure what it would be. The Blue Dragon theme was a neat little piece.

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I really enjoyed it though I have my complaints (among others the video screens and the camera work WTF?!).

That's my feeling too. It was really neat, but I think, "this should have been better" and "that should have been like this."

They should show more game video on the big screens, and less playing. Or, they could continue to show playing on the left and right screens and have game video on the middle screen.

They show almost every game, but NOT CHRONO?! It was a huge disappointment to hear Frog's Theme being played and not see him on the screen. No Final Fantasy footage either. Maybe it has something to do with Squaresoft licensing?

Everything needed to be louder.

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Edit: Highlights: Earth City from Halo 2, Sanctuary from Kingdom Hearts, Shenmue, most of the Sonic Suite... Dr. Robotnik's theme was awesome! I wish the arrangement would have explored it more.

The Zelda medley was my favorite, though like almost every other medley, I wish it was longer and contained more songs. It was great to hear the Chrono Trigger theme. Reminscence ~Thoughts Not Extinguished~ (pretty sure it's that one, it was a nice piano song) was a very nice surprise as the Chrono opener; I didn't expect them to play that one. The Shenmue music was pretty; my friend liked that the best besides Zelda.

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Disappointments: Halo Theme, which thankfully was redeemed by Earth City, Bob-omb Battlefield in the Mario Suite

I was disappointed by Halo as well. First off, the men were singing with vibrato at the beginning. That should have just been sung straight; there's no vibrato there. That was kind of minor, though. The more major thing was that the song simply wasn't as powerful as it should have been. As I said before, everything should have been louder.

I was disappointed by the Chrono medley as well. It was my most anticipated part, and I felt that it was too short and frankly, not as powerful/emotional as it should have been. The transition to the Celtic part in Time's Scar was almost a trainwreck as far as the instruments being together. I expected to hear all of To Far Away Times, and we only got to hear the very end.

So, they only play a few songs from Chrono, Halo, and such, and then they play like 10 minutes of World of Warcraft music. What's up with that? :-/

Still a really neat experience overall. It was such an odd atmosphere, seeing all these kids, teens, and young adults everywhere; certainly not your normal symphony crowd. It was kind of neat in a way though, as was everyone laughing/cheering at the old-school Mario and Zelda clips.

Though I have my complaints, it's great that game music has come far enough to have two dedicated concert tours (this and Video Games Live). I thought it was cool in a way to be having a "world premiere" of a video game score being played by an orchestra. Here's hoping this new awareness and acceptance of vgm continues to grow and leads to many more events like this.

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Originally Posted by Amanda

YES. Keep the good news coming, PLAY!. Justify my plane ticket!

I wonder what Castlevania songs will make the cut. It'd be interesting to see something like "The Tragic Prince" make it into an orchestra arrangement. Though considering the Kingdom Hearts suite apparently leaves out songs like "Destati", I guess it's most likely to just be a main theme or two. :/

Yeah, my friend (a big KH fan) was very disappointed with the KH suite. They played the two Japanese pop themes (as he calls them) - Simple and Clean and Passion - and perhaps part of one other songs I didnt' recognize.

It'll interesting seeing what Castlevania songs they choose to play.

I was speaking idiomatically.