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PLAY! Video Game Symphony Concert Series Announced
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Music4Games
has received word from the creative team that brought this year's
ground breaking Dear Friends-Music from FINAL FANTASY Symphony
Tour, comes an entirely new celebration of video game music and images.
JMP Productions has announced that PLAY!,
a symphony concert series with music from a catalogue of blockbuster
video game titles (full line-up to be announced) will tour around
the world, starting in North America beginning in 2006. The tour is
being booked by IMG
Artists.
PLAY! Video Game Symphony concerts, to be performed by full orchestra
and choir, will feature award-winning music from titles such as FINAL
FANTASY, METAL GEAR SOLID, SHENMUE, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG, SILENT HILL,
WORLD OF WARCRAFT, BATTLEFIELD 1942, and THE ELDER SCROLLS III: MORROWIND.
Outstanding graphics on large screens above the orchestra will accompany
the scores, highlighting memorable moments from the video games.
"As the most experienced team in the field of video game music
concerts we will present the ultimate tour to the fans," said
series producer Jason Michael Paul. "Our concerts will feature
many brand new arrangements done by the original composers themselves.
We will focus on celebrating video game music like never before."
Arnie Roth, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Chicagoland
Pops will serve as Principal Conductor and Music Director for this
concert series. "This spectacular concert will attract people
of all generations to some of the world's greatest concert halls."
The first stateside video game music concert, Dear Friends - Music
from FINAL FANTASY, was held on May 10, 2004 at the Walt Disney
Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA.The concert, produced by JMP Productions,
featured music from Square-Enix's world-renowned video game series,
celebrated the unique beauty of FINAL FANTASY's award-winning score
and images. Performed by the acclaimed Los Angeles Philharmonic and
the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Dear Friends sold out in three
days and received rave reviews from the press. The positive reception
given to that performance gave rise to the 2005 U.S. concert series,
under the direction of Maestro Arnie Roth. The performance of Dear
Friends - Music from FINAL FANTASY by the Chicagoland Pops Orchestra
and CPO Festival Choir, conducted by Roth in February 2005 was a sold-out
house of over 4,250. Of the attendees, many were young people who
had never attended an orchestral concert before.
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