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“It’s really important to us that the music that we’re choosing from the various games that we’re showing has something the orchestra can really dig into,” said Brick, originally from the Chicago area. “I actually picked up a spreadsheet of every single note and phrase that I was modifying or orchestrating so that could see exactly what I was doing,” he says.
“I think the integrity of the music and the fan base around the music in particular is just so rich and so perfect for a concert hall setting,” Burt says."The audiences are becoming more and more multi-generational. People are attending as families,” she says of their overall audiences. “From what I know, they tend to be one-offs and there’s not necessarily a strong correlation between subscriptions and participation in these concerts,” he says.
Branching out into commercial fare certainly isn't new — so-called"pop" series have long been a staple of symphonies eager to reach beyond core supporters.