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Topic Started: Jul 29 2006, 09:13 AM (358 Views)
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On Thursday I went (w/ my family) to Philidelphia in order to see Play! A Video Game Symphony... and since not much happened on the ride there or at the hotel we stayed at, I'll just skip to the Symphony itself. When we got there, we were about 45 min to an hour early, so we walked around the area a bit. There were shirts for sale (which I didn't get) and no CDs :( . There was also overpriced food. The actual place where they did it was a huge stage and a rather large seating area under a rather large roof that covered the area but was also immediately open to the outside. While we were waiting they also played video game music (not orchestrated) over the speakers while showing advertisements for 3 websites on three big screens. My seat was in the front row, on the right side, and yes I could still see perfectly.

When it finally started, the advertisements changed to the Play! logo and by this time the orchestra was out and seated on stage with all manner of string and wind instruments as well as a drums and a whoir. Then it began with the "Play! Fanfare" which, I believe can be heard in part on the Play! website. After this the conductor (Arnie Roth, who is good friends with Nobuo Uematsu) came out and introduced the next few songs (and condinued doing this throughout the night) after a message from Nobuo Uematsu, the composer of most Final Fantasy music. A scan of the program follows:


Here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/Lin...PlayProgram.gif


Also, a couple songs after intermission a surprise song from "Prey" was played that was "A world premier", but it didn't really stand out to me as amazing, but it was still cool to have another song as they all sounded very good. Also, after what we believed was the final song, we were surprised to find out that there was another from the new game "Blue Dragon", which I have never heard of, and whose music did not stand out either. Even so, I would have stayed all night if they had kept playing songs as all the music, even those I didn't recognize sounded beautiful (if I can still be a man and say that word). So pretty much my reaction was, it was totally worth it and I very much enjoyed every moment of it. The music is way better in person and it was just an unbelievable experience, making me wish that I smuggled in my mp3 player to record some of it. ;)


Website: http://www.play-symphony.com/
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wow sounds pretty cool. i almost wish i had been there. it definitely wouldve opened me up to alot more video game music than what im familiar with.
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cool, it sounds like it was really fun! I wish I coulda gone, all well.
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Oh yeah, it was sweet. The only thing I didn't like was the annoying lady behind me that kept making comments before and during songs. :| But she wasn't as bad as some people I've sat next to so I lived with it.
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I noticed that "Kirby, The One Who PWNS All Of The Other Videogame Characters Because He Is Almighty" wasn't listed......

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Yeah so did I. I would really have liked to hear Kirby music in the symphony, but it wasn't sorry. (I also was missing Metroid and Pokemon music as well, but it was still good)
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nobuo uematsu is pwnxorz
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CrimsonEXE
Jul 29 2006, 03:36 PM
nobuo uematsu is pwnxorz

none of you sentance was english... >_> cept "is" :lol:
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fatsquirrel
Jul 29 2006, 08:59 PM
CrimsonEXE
Jul 29 2006, 03:36 PM
nobuo uematsu is pwnxorz

none of you sentance was english... >_> cept "is" :lol:

uh oh you figured me out
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that sounds really cool. i wish i could have been there.
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You never have heard of "Blue Dragon"?



To be, or not to be: that is the question. To die, to sleep; no more; and by a sleep to say we end. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause. That makes calamity of so long life, for who would bear the whips and scorns of time when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of something after death, the undiscover'd country from whose bourn no traveller returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
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Dude2000
Aug 4 2006, 06:57 PM
You never have heard of "Blue Dragon"?

No, not until this. Sorry. XD
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Dude2000
Aug 4 2006, 06:57 PM
You never have heard of "Blue Dragon"?

No, not until this. Sorry. XD

Treachery!!!

*slaps*



To be, or not to be: that is the question. To die, to sleep; no more; and by a sleep to say we end. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause. That makes calamity of so long life, for who would bear the whips and scorns of time when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of something after death, the undiscover'd country from whose bourn no traveller returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
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Aug 5 2006, 08:04 PM
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Aug 5 2006, 07:12 PM
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Aug 4 2006, 06:57 PM
You never have heard of "Blue Dragon"?

No, not until this. Sorry. XD

Treachery!!!

*slaps*

ow. * turns head in opposite direction from what physics would normally cause *

*insert pacman dying noise*
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:)

Seriously though, how could you not know Blue Dragon?



To be, or not to be: that is the question. To die, to sleep; no more; and by a sleep to say we end. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause. That makes calamity of so long life, for who would bear the whips and scorns of time when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of something after death, the undiscover'd country from whose bourn no traveller returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
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