An experiences like none other

Yesterday evening I had the chance of doing something that I believed I would never get the chance to in my life and that the only way that I would be able to experience this would be through listening to CD’s. If you haven’t guessed it from the picture that I have used today then I shall be spending a little bit of time today talking about the Legend of Zelda Symphony of the Goddesses.

Before I start talking about the show itself I would like to explain what I meant at the beginning of the post and that is why I believed that I wouldn’t be able to experiences this kind of show.

From as far back as I can remember there has always been one type of music that I have always enjoyed above anything else and that is music soundtracks from movies, television shows and all the way up to video games. The reason that I have enjoyed them more than any other music is because they can be very simple but powerful and to also have the ability to convey more emotion than any other form of music.

When it came to movies and television it has always been easy to get my hands on them because you could always find them in music shops but for video games it has almost been impossible to unless you lived in Japan (this was before you could download them). When the Internet finally arrived in our house I was then given the chance to download these gems so that I could listen to them whenever I wanted to but by doing so I also discovered something that I never knew of beforehand and that was some of the tracks that I had downloaded where also live orchestra pieces.

The only problem that I encountered with these tracks was the fact that I was enjoying them more than the originals and because of this I wanted to go and be able to listen to them live like the recording I had found but the only other problem I had was the fact that they were done for special events in Japan. Upon learning this I knew that it would be very difficult for me to be able to see them but when Nintendo announced to the world that they were going to be celebrating the twenty-five anniversary of the Legend of Zelda by doing a symphony I knew that I wanted to go but I never got the chance to and because of this I was gutted. Then when it was announced that they were going to be doing another show I knew that I wanted to go and that I would do almost anything to get tickets.

The way in which the show was done was by starting off by playing some of the most noticeable tunes from the history of Zelda while having a screen showing you the evolution of the series. After the opening they then introduced who they were and what they were playing for us for the night.

The experience was to some part almost impossible to put into words and as someone that has grown up with the series from an earlier age it bought back memories of me playing these games. All I can say is that if you are a fan of the series then this is something that you have to experience.

Until Next Time.