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.
