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Entertainment: Video Games Live 2006
Mon, 18 Sep 2006

I wasn't able to attend the Video Games Live music show, but a friend did; he mailed out an account that I thought was so much fun I had to repost it here (with his permission.) Read on for Ian's account!

Tuesday, September 12, 2006: Video Games Live at Massey Hall

My wife and I saw "Video Games Live" at Massey Hall in Toronto on Friday September 1. The basic premise of the show is a having a local orchestra (mostly members of the TSO) play music from popular video games, synchronized to footage from said games.

The show was amazing. The orchestra sounded great and the hosts / video game composers Jack Wall and Tommy Tallarico (from the video game television show Electric Playground) made the evening a lot of fun.

The way that the live music was synchronized to video segments from the games was really effective.

I really enjoyed the Classic Gaming medley, which opened the show. It included orchestral interpretations of sound effects and music from Pong, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Missile Command, Defender, Tempest (Yay!), Centipede, Robotron 2084, Joust, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Dragon's Lair, Gauntlet, Rastan and Outrun.

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