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Final Fantasy concert at Boston Symphony Hall on March 10
"Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy" will be performed at Boston's Symphony Hall on March 10. The concert features compositions by Nobuo Uematsu and Masashi Hamauzu, covering the past 25 years of the series.The concert will be conducted by Grammy Award-winning artist Arnie Roth leading Boston's Video Game Orchestra (VGO) and Choir Força. Final Fantasy composer Masashi Hamauzu will be in attendance.Tickets are still available, with the standard price running $43.50-$76.00 and VIP tickets for $126.00. The acoustics are pretty spectacular in the space and we understand tickets are selling quickly, so get your personal assistant Moogle to order tickets immediately if you're interested.
Boston Globe features Berklee's growing video game music composition program
Boston's Berklee College of Music continues to expand its curriculum for video game music. The Boston Globe has a feature on the program, which this semester includes five classes in game audio and scoring (in a musical sense). The piece covers the basics of the program, from the first class started four years ago to the compositions being put together for local indie games. Berklee isn't the only school with video game audio classes, as Yale, New York University and local rival New England Conservatory also feature programs. The thing that really makes Berklee stand out, however, is its Video Game Music Club, which reportedly has 300 members. Check out the Globe piece for a nice introduction to Berklee's growing recognition of the medium.
You're going to love the Video Game Orchestra
You're all familiar with Video Games Live by this point, and with good reason, it's a great organization. But we want to make sure you don't miss out on one of our new favorites in the field: the Video Game Orchestra, a collection of volunteers just playing for the love of the music.We've got video of the Boston-based group's take on Metal Gear Solid 3 after the break, but we're betting you're going to want to see all of the clips on its YouTube channel right here.
For your listening pleasure: Electro-Orchestral Warcraft music
Video Game Orchestra is a group of avid gamers who are creating an archive of music from popular video games. Music titles enshrined on their site include Super Mario World, Sonic the Hedgehog and, this takes me back, Golden Axe. For World of Warcraft, they have done something a little different. Taking the orchestral Call To Arms music from the game, they have remixed an electronica version. Take a listen, it's quite good. I can't wait until someone uses that in a Machinima piece.
