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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. Strange by elid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wonder who came up with that selection. It really leaves out a lot of classics that are known for their music (think Zelda, FF3, FF7, etc.).

  2. New Trend? by Anonymous+Cumshot · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Are we seeing a new trend of appreciation for videogame music here on slashdot? In the past week there has been at least three articles on the topic.

    First Nintendo Acapella, then the Video Game Pianist, now this.

    I for one welcome our new video-game-music-appreciating overlords.

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  3. 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.

  4. Myst music... by Capt'n+Hector · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Some of the music from the original Myst was amazing. Anybody know if it was original to the game? If so, kudos to the composer (and if not, kudos too I guess...)

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    1. 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.

  5. Re:bah! by I(rispee_I(reme · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I actually heard some music from Chrono Cross the other day on the weather channel, quite surprising.

  6. Mechwarrior II by EasyBakeBarbie · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Mechwarrior II seriers from Activision gets my vote for best video game sound track ever. (Although WoW is pretty dang good) These techno/tribal tunes really helped to set a mood better than any game prior to it, IHMO. And I believe it still holds true today. Actually, I have the sound tracks on my IPOD and listen to them quite regularly. True, they lost something in the 2nd and 3rd installments of the game, but still top notch. ~T.D.~

  7. Re:bah! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    It frightens me wondering what sort of weather report that was played over. "60% chance of random encounters, followed by light showers."

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