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Game Music Featured In Hollywood Bowl Concert

Posted by Zonk on from the great-music-of-our-hobby dept.

Via Kotaku, the news that a Hollywood Bowl concert to be held on July 6th of this year will feature music from several AAA game titles, and will be performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. From the concert's set list: "Games scheduled to be included are: Halo, Metal Gear Solid, Warcraft, Tron, Myst"

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  1. FF music already taken by another show by Blackwulf · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Final Fantasy music already has a touring symphony series called Dear Friends. I'm going to see the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra play music from Final Fantasy in late June, but local symphonies are playing the same program (with the same conductor) in Chicago, LA, and Boston I believe.

  2. Re:Myst music... by Zathras26 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, it was original to the game. One of the Millers (I can't remember which one) composed all of it. There's a bit about it in the QuickTime movie that was included with the original "Myst" CD. Originally, they weren't going to include any music at all because they were afraid "it would make the game sound too much like Super Mario Brothers", but when they finally tried one or two tracks, they realized it worked really well.