Think so?
Then you need to check THIS out:
http://kotaku.com/gaming/bungie/corporeal-performs-halo-in-studio-222825.php
The kid with the electric violin is now in Julliard.
The music? Yeah, that’s “popular” music from the video game Halo. Modern classical music, adapted for “rock” instruments... which the classical stations won’t play. They won’t even play the original which was performed by a full orchestra.
Love it!
All those kids rock!
Our youngest son would LOVE to attend a concert at which the orchestra plays music from his video games. There is a Japanese composer he particularly likes, but I can’t think of his name right now. Isn’t is interesting that some of those games are responsible for introducing our kids to something other than rap or grinding hard rock!
I just sent that link of the group doing the “Halo” theme to our youngest son. Knowing him, though, he’s probably already seen it.
One of my joys is to have a computer at work that allows me to listen to BBC3, and as I sing in a church choir I am always interested in Aled Jones show called "The Choir." Their program for this week are songs in praise of Mary, Mother of Jesus.
Over the last few months I've heard recordings ranging from Viking songs, to "Sacred Music for Choir and Didgeridoo." Last week it was American College A Cappella Choirs singing everything from Ozzy Osbourne and Tenacious D song called "Tribute" as well as classical.
One of my favorite edisodes focused on Commercial music. Here was his "playlist, featuring choral music from Halo 3, Assassins creed, Final Fantasy VIII, and Clive Barkers Jericho, as well as several soundtracks.
My point is that we are all "Kings," we are all patrons. All music, even sacred music is produced to sell. When we connect with the emotion of the composer, we "buy" into it. Yes, propaganda can be musical. Classical music is no more or less a tool than any other method of communication.
In the twenty-first century, we are also all "rebels." Last night I watched "Immortal Beloved" again. This thread just reminded me of when Beethoven started out intending to praise Napoleon, and scratched out his name from Eroica. At the end of the film, as he was unable to hear the music of his Ninth symphony, the filmaker chose to represent the inspiration of Beethoven's joy as being a kid running away from his abusive dad into the freedom of a night swim under a thousand stars.
I can never hear that song without thinking of the fall of the Berlin Wall and that concert where Leonard Bernstein changed the words from "Joy (Freude)"" to "Freedom (Freiheit)" as the city was reunited. It expressed it perfectly - which is what classical music does, and why we still buy it.
BTW, my favorite violinist is Joe Venuti.
