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Following the release of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth last month, an orchestral world tour has been announced. Set to kick off in August 2024, the tour will allow fans to “experience all new symphonic arrangements” of the music of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. The show will include “beloved scores” by Nobuo Uematsu and “exciting new contributions” from Mitsuto Suzuki, Masashi Hamauzu, and many other esteemed composers and arrangers. The whole thing will be performed by an orchestra and chorus of over 100 musicians led by renowned…

Nintendo is offering up its best Navi impersonation by asking you to "hey, listen" to a pre-recorded orchestral concert of classic The Legend of Zelda tunes. The performance happened last month in Tokyo, but now is available to everyone to watch on YouTube--and seen below.Originally, this Legend of Zelda concert was supposed to take place at Nintendo Live 2024 Tokyo, but the company had to cancel the event over safety fears, per VGC. As such, the performance was pre-recorded and shared online. The video…

Last updated: January 19th, 2024 at 17:08 UTC+01:00 Since 2011, the coming of a new Galaxy S flagship marks the release of a new ringtone. Every year, Samsung reinterprets the iconic “Over the Horizon” musical theme, and needless to say, the latest Galaxy S24 series brings us a new iconic ringtone for 2024. Samsung's new Over the Horizon is now available on YouTube. The company says this year's ringtone embraces the “Sound from Nature” theme and expresses a harmonious moment when tradition and modernity meet. A…

One of the appeals of Stardew Valley is its chill soundtrack. Accompanying players while they farm crops, talk to neighbors, and go exploring, the musical score is such an integral part of the game that a Festival of Seasons tour was announced last month. However, demand has been so high that the developer has added in more dates. In a recent post on the website-formerly-known-as-Twitter, Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has said the global orchestral tour has been expanded, adding new dates and locations. Looking at the…

It’s quite rare – and conceptually curious – to find an artist as innovative and tech-forward as Brian Eno in the company of a large orchestra. The stage tonight is full of what more philistine tech bros might call “legacy” instruments – fussy cornets and sentimental cellos, blustery tubas and self-important timpani. This tour marks the first time this polymath, app designer and generative music specialist has performed with an orchestra; it is also, seemingly, his first ever solo tour of any kind – despite a career…

‘I want what you’re taking,” Pete Townshend quips, pointing to an enthusiastic fan. “Not again,” retorts Roger Daltrey, comedically rolling his eyes. After six decades of bickering, the two original members of the Who still have compelling onstage friction.In a loosely buttoned white linen shirt, Daltrey paces stage right, twirling his microphone and winking at the crowd. Townshend keeps firmly to his own half. “The Who? More like who’s left,” the guitarist deadpans, before gesturing at a stage packed with strings, brass…

The opening night of 2023’s American Express presents BST Hyde Park will host a new classic music live experience ‘All Things Orchestral’ on Friday 23rd June.Presented by Myleene Klass, the event will feature Alfie Boe and the world famous Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, conducted by Michael England.Using BST Hyde Park’s famous Great Oak Stage, which has hosted the world’s biggest music legends since 2013, fans will be taken on a summer night’s journey through classical music, both traditional and modern.With music…

The musical story of Harry Belafonte is really a story of 20th-century popular music, and how it draws on influences from multiple places and people, circulating throughout the Caribbean, over to the US and back again. Belafonte was an American of Jamaican descent but he came of age before the development of reggae, so he was influenced by other Caribbean genres popular at the time: Jamaica’s mento – a style of folk music – and calypso, which originates from Trinidad and Tobago.Even though Belafonte’s most popular album…

“Sa, re, sa!” The ethereal voice of Abi Sampa sounds like thunder, as she sings the unmistakable ragas from Dam Mast Qalandar, a Sufi Islamic song known as a qawwali. A piano, a Celtic violin solo, the sigh of a harmonium and the soaring bows of an orchestra reverberate with the gravitas of a Hans Zimmer score. This qawwali was written by the 18th-century Sufi mystic and poet, Bulleh Shah, and later immortalised by the legendary Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Now it has a new lease of life.Sampa, 37, and Rushil…

The Game Awards has announced a special concert with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra for next summer. The show is due to take place at the Hollywood Bowl amphitheatre in LA, California on Sunday June 25, 2023 in partnership with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (LA Phil). READ MORE: The 8 best PC games you need to play in 2022 It’ll see the world-renowned Hollywood Bowl Orchestra reimagine music from a host of new and iconic games to mark The Game Awards’ 10-year anniversary. Per a press release, the event will…