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"Play - a video game symphony"

Author: Alphie
Date: 2006-06-19 19:35

Last week we played our final concert before the summer holidays. We played the production: ”Play – a video game symphony”. It’s a production with music from some of the most popular video games on the market such as: ”The legend of Zelda”, ”Super-Mario” and ”Battlefield”. The conductor was one of the composers in the field Arnie Roth. The Japanese composer Uematsu was also there.
For the first time in our orchestras history the tickets were sold out three month before in only 20 minutes. There were ticket sales on the black market for five times the original price. The reception from the public was enormous and nothing like a classical concert. The kids I was talking to after the concert treated me like a rock star and they were stunned by admiration and promised to come back for more of our usual repertoire.
We learned something that night. It’s not the symphony orchestra or the usual repertoire that keep young people away from the concert halls. It’s the whole conservative idea and frame work of going to a classical concert. This, I think, was a good way to break the ice, at least for the kids who were there. They will tell their friends how cool it was to listened to a symphony orchestra and hopefully it’s a start of a new trend in my city. Step by step I think there is a way for our art form to survive the media jungle. Young people want to hear real music performed by real people if they get a chance to do so. Many of them don’t know they want to and have to be persuaded to do so by someone who's pushing the right button by playing music they know.

Alphie

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