Soundtracks of a video game"Final Fantasy" will be performed on Saturday at the Ohio Theatre in Columbus.
Four singers and a 75-musician orchestra led by Nobuo Uematsu, who composed most of the songs from the popular video game, will perform "Distant Worlds: Music From Final Fantasy."
"I'm not really what you'd call a gamer," Arnie Roth, music director for the Final Fantasy concert series, told The Beat.
"As you play the game to different and higher levels, the music changes. Some of it never appears in play until such high levels, people might never hear it. The sheer volume of music is astounding," Roth added.
Introduced in 1987 in Japan, Final Fantasy is a series of role-playing games which has been commercially and critically successful throughout the world.
Japanese video game composer Nobuo Uematsu, 53, has written perhaps thousands of hours of music for nearly 20 years for the 14 editions of the game.
Saturday's concert will also feature Masashi Hamauzu's compositions written for the games. Other highlights include a 12-minute operatic performance from Final Fantasy VI, where Bass-baritone Brian Banion, mezzo-soprano Elise DesChamps, and tenor Brian Cheney will sing. Vocalist Susan Calloway will sing three pop songs, including "Eyes on Me" from the video game.
The performance is designed as a part of "Matsuricon," a pop-culture conference on Japanese animation, graphic novels and video games.
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