i always fascinated with orchestrated pop music, such as anime, video game, movie ost or even pop song that has been improvise to orchestra version. i believe this step makes a closer move towards the younger audience so that they will appreciate classical/traditional music and culture. many ppl tend to perceive classical/traditional music as something that belongs to adult, something that are too high and distanced from us. a friend once told me that Singapore Chinese orchestra's music director, maestro tsung yeh, once told them that every orchestra and every music form (whether CO or symphony orchestra), needs to have some "pop" in their repertoire, if not, they'll slowly lose touch of their audience. therefore, we always need some "pop" in order to make CO more popular.
adding pop elements into classical/traditional music does not necessary decreasing the artistic value of CO/symphony. if you search through the internet, love story meets viva la vida was and is still a major hit, the masterful jon schmidt and co. combined both very popular song in 2008 into a wonderful voice from heaven!
joe hisaishi, the guy who help hayao miyazaki masterminded the classicity of ghibli studio's animation series and if you google or youtube his name, you'll be addicted to his masterpiece.
nobuo uematsu, final fantasy (video game) series composer, i dare to say his music inspired ppl to start notice or even appreciate video game music. the song eyes on me was final fantasy viii's theme song and was so phenomenal during the late 1990's and helped faye wong to propel her flying musical career.
noriyuki asakura, he might be very strange guy to you but he have a very high reputation in japanese video game music industry, notable piece were video games like "way of the samurai", "tenchu", and the anime "kenshin".
yoko kanno, a female composer that responsible for dozens of classical anime and japanese movies and drama!
yuki kajiura, another pretty female composer that creates multiple ost(s) for movies, anime, video games in japan.
hans zimmer.....perhaps he is Hollywood's trump card composer, notable music including ost for "pirates of the caribbean", "the lion king", "black hawk down", "the dark knight (batman)", "prince of egypt"......
harry gregson-william a quite low profile composer but his work is amazing and very similiar to hans zimmer's style as they work in a same company. he's quite popular in japan perhaps his role in creating music scores for the phenomenal video game "metal gear" series, and also music composer for "shrek" series...
you guys played the popular-multi award winning casual game for pc and other platforms "plant versus zombie"? laura shigihara, made the musics! plant versus zombie
these guys composed so many good musics but seriously under-appreciated or even omitted by most ppl. time to give these masterful yet given us so many nostalgic memories some proper appreciation. the world is boring and sad enough, so let's give ppl some smile!
i am planning to organize a concert at the end of next year with a theme like this. mainly focus on anime/video game/movie ost/pop music, Chinese orchestra incorporated with western or even electrical music elements. to pay tributes to these wonderful music maker and also get more closer to the younger audience to appreciate traditional/classical music. perhaps this would even popularize new genre of music for chinese orchestra, who knows? whose interested? those who are interested as performers or committees are most welcomed!!! waiting for good news from now!
who am i? i'm just a anime/video game music enthusiast who just arranged love story meets viva la vida and he's a pirate for chinese orchestra.
at last, not sure who arrange this but this song actually fired up me to do similiar approach if i got the chance to do so: one night in beijing
a night in fantasia music concert 2009 by eminence
ghibli studio 25th anniversary music concert by joe hisaishi
a tribute to awesome video game maker and their excellent music composer!
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