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Zelda 25th anniversary Concert Details (Oct 21 in Los angeles + more)

M

Mockingbird

Member
Nintendo Press Site said:
NINTENDO CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF THE LEGEND OF ZELDA WITH SYMPHONY CONCERT

First Concert Will Be Oct. 21 in Los Angeles, Followed by Full Tour in 2012

REDMOND, Wash., July 21, 2011 – Nintendo is celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda™ video game series in style. The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony Concert will be held Oct. 21 at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, and will include songs from the iconic series hand-picked by Nintendo composer Koji Kondo and his team. A full concert tour for The Legend of Zelda will launch in 2012. Ticket prices for the Los Angeles concert start at $35 and will be available starting Aug. 1 at http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0B0046F3F2235ED2.

"The Legend of Zelda has few peers in the pantheon of video game giants, and the games and their music have always shared a deep connection," said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. "Through these concerts, fans nationwide will be able to gather and show their love for the quarter century of action, adventure and excitement that The Legend of Zelda games have brought to their lives."

A 70-piece orchestra will be joined by a choir to perform new arrangements of a variety of songs from the series' 25-year history. The concerts will be produced by Jason Michael Paul Productions, Inc., the producers of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony, which has toured the world performing music from video games.

"The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony Concert Tour brings one of the video game industry's most exciting and enduring franchises to the concert hall and presents what we feel is the definitive concert experience for the series," said executive producer Jason Michael Paul. "It's an event that fans and music aficionados won't want to miss."

Nintendo's celebration of the 25th anniversary includes many elements. On June 19, Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time™ 3D game for the Nintendo 3DS™ system, while The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword game for the Wii™ console is planned for this holiday season. In September, Nintendo is offering the multiplayer fun of The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords as a free gift to fans. Fans can download a Nintendo DSiWare™ version of the game using their Nintendo DSi™ or Nintendo DSi XL™ systems, or by accessing the Nintendo eShop with a Nintendo 3DS system (wireless broadband Internet access required for download). Additional 25th anniversary activities will be announced throughout 2011.

For more information about the concerts, visit http://www.zelda-symphony.com.

About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™ home console, Nintendo 3DS™ and Nintendo DS™ family of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 3.7 billion video games and more than 600 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi™ and Nintendo DSi XL™, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™ and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™, Zelda™ and Pokémon™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, please visit the company's website at http://www.nintendo.com.

About Jason Michael Paul Productions, Inc: A pioneer and leader in the live symphonic concert industry, Jason Michael Paul Productions, Inc. has been responsible for producing world-renowned concerts including events for The Three Tenors, Luciano Pavarotti, Dear Friends ~ Music from FINAL FANTASY, More Friends ~ Music from FINAL FANTASY and the currently touring and highly-acclaimed PLAY! A Video Game Symphony.
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Wish I could go.

Tickets: US $35.00 - US $150.00

US $35.00 Ticket + US $15.15 Fees =
US $50.15

OR

US $150.00 Ticket + US $23.80 Fees =
US $173.80
 
C

CoolS

Member
Jackano said:
The zelda-symphony.com site prompt me for auth :lol

Can't wait for EU dates.
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Same here, I will definitely be there, though I bet they'll have me drive to Berlin or Frankfurt
 
MisterHero

MisterHero

Super Member
I hope it will be better than Distant Worlds - Final Fantasy.

Which isn't a bad thing because I quite enjoyed it.

and they should truck Koji Kondo around so I can see him in person
 
W

wrowa

Member
CoolS said:
Same here, I will definitely be there, though I bet they'll have me drive to Berlin or Frankfurt
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If there will be a concert in Germany, I bet that it's going to be held in Cologne.
 
T

The Dutch Slayer

Member
wrowa said:
If there will be a concert in Germany, I bet that it's going to be held in Cologne.
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Yes but not during/around gamescom because that is in 3 weeks and they had to have more information if they wanted to do it in that time period.
 
C

CoolS

Member
wrowa said:
If there will be a concert in Germany, I bet that it's going to be held in Cologne.
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Basically everything is nearer than Berlin at this point for me, so I am ok witht that.

The Dutch Slayer said:
Yes but not during/around gamescom because that is in 3 weeks and they had to have more information if they wanted to do it in that time period.
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It's next year anyway.
 
D

Divvy

Canadians burned my passport
I hope this comes to Toronto. Been looking for updates to this ever since it was announced.
 
N

Nuclear Muffin

Banned
Diprosalic said:
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hoping for Germany as well.
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Most likely that they'll do 2 locations in Europe. One in London, one in Cologne. They catch the majority of the audience that way, while still being as tight fisted and cheap as possible (Japan will only get one though I bet)
 
S

Sennorin

Banned
Nuclear Muffin said:
Most likely that they'll do 2 locations in Europe. One in London, one in Cologne. They catch the majority of the audience that way (Japan will only get one though I bet)
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Fuck Cologne, Munich please!
 
N

NintendoGal

Member
The site is open now and it seems like the music is from when they performed at the media briefing at E3. Nice to have a decent copy of it instead of just from my camera.
 
B

BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
Hopefully this will be respectable concert and not the woopfest that is Video Games Live.
 
M

MYE

Member
TWYVo.jpg


Skyward Sword map?

Generic Hyrule map?

???
 
J

Jackano

Member
The only sad thing in this all symphonic concerts is that the new orchestrations will be used FOREVER after that by Nintendo.

And I bet now that Zelda Wii U will have at least one trailer with a background music that will be one of the tracks played in the 25th anniverary concerts.
I'm tired of earing the same 1993 orchestration from the japanese OG concerts in the Video Game Live events.
One of the The Wind Waker trailers used the orchestral theme played in Sakurai's Smash Bros Melee concert.

That will be cheap, but with a full concert plenty of new Zelda orchestrations, we will have to pay Nintendo's cheapiness after that. Don't expect any new orchestration in other third party concerts, nor Zelda game trailers until the next decade!
 
Theonik

Theonik

Member
Here's hoping for a concert in Greece :lol
No matter how nice Nintendo of Greece has been there is no way, fortunately travelling shouldn't be an issue
 
D

Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
Divvy said:
I hope this comes to Toronto. Been looking for updates to this ever since it was announced.
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Me too. My boyfriend said that if it ever comes here he's going to buy us tickets, and we're going even if our schedules are iffy. We didn't get to go to Distant Worlds because I had to finish my senior thesis and he had some paperwork to finish up for work, but we really want to go to this one.
 
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