

The middle of the show will feature Uematsu and Masashi Hamauazu s arrangement of the Final Fantasy X music and the concert will finish with Uematsu s Final Fantasy VII piece. It will start with Jonne Valtonen s Fantasy Overture and move onto Nobuo Uematsu s score from Final Fantasy VI. The performance is scheduled to be something special with Eckehard Stier conducting the San Francisco Symphony. The music will be familiar to many they are arguably some of the best games in the series. The ensemble will tackle the Final Symphony, which features arrangements from Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy X. Seeing that success, the San Francisco Symphony will try its hand at the practice, and they re picking one of the most popular soundtracks in the industry. For many symphonies and concert halls, performances of video game scores is credited with drawing a younger audience to instrumental tunes. One of the biggest impacts that has been seen lies in an arena usually reserved for classical music. The most recent available filing (2016/2017) lists the 5 highest paid principals in the San Francisco Symphony as follows: Alexander Barantschik, Concertmaster 589.272 Eugene Izotov. Last summer, in a performance that was sold out weeks in advance, Roth led the San Francisco Symphony in a Davies Symphony Hall concert of Final Fantasy music.San Francisco Symphony to play Final Fantasy music – The Mercury News Close MenuĪs video games have grown in popularity, its effect on other art forms has spread. These concerts mark the first time Masashi Hamauzu’s Final Fantasy music has been performed in North America. The San Francisco concerts are the first of only four stops the Final Fantasy concert tour is making in the United States. Vocalist Susan Calloway, who sings on the just-released Distant Worlds II: more music from Final Fantasy recording, appears with the Orchestra both nights, singing Memoro de la Stono–Distant Worlds from Final Fantasy XI and Kiss Me Goodbye from Final Fantasy XII.

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On Friday, July 16 only, the Orchestra will perform Sutekidane from Final Fantasy X, Dancing Mad from Final Fantasy VI, Kiss Me Goodbye from Final Fantasy XII, Vamo’ alla Flamenco from Final Fantasy IX, and J-E-N-O-V-A from Final Fantasy VII, as part of a full program of Final Fantasy music. The Orchestra will also perform some of Uematsu’s most popular pieces from earlier, classic versions of the game, including, on Thursday, July 15 only, the Main Theme from Final Fantasy VII, a medley from Final Fantasy I-III, To Zanarkand from Final Fantasy X, Ronfaure from Final Fantasy XI, and the 12-minute “opera” “Maria and Draco” from Final Fantasy VI, featuring soprano Christine Abraham, tenor Brian Jagde, and baritone Brian Leerhuber. The Orchestra will perform for the first time in North America a medley of Hamauzu’s music from the latest best-selling Final Fantasy XIII game and Nobuo Uematsu’s Final Fantasy IX: Prima Vista. While the Orchestra plays, state-of-the-art images from Final Fantasy game scenes will be projected onto the big screen. Grammy Award-winning conductor and music director Arnie Roth conducts the Orchestra in Davies Symphony Hall concerts Thursday, July 15 and Friday, July 16 at 8 p.m.

The San Francisco Symphony announced they will perform two different concerts of music from Final Fantasy, the popular role-playing video game, including the North American premieres of music from Final Fantasy composers Nobuo Uematsu and Masashi Hamauzu.
