Andy Brick conducts CD Projekt Red’s"The Witcher 3" during a Game On! concert with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, in Seattle, in a Sept. 16, 2023, handout photo.
“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. To maintain the spirit of the original, Brick says he consulted Duke while translating the digital arrangement into one for analog instruments typical of a symphony orchestra.
The orchestra’s senior manager for artistic planning says “Final Fantasy” — composed by Nobuo Uematsu — works especially well for NAC's inaugural video game concert. However, he doubted these kinds of events would lead to season subscriptions from younger generations. “You find that people got used to getting music for free during the pandemic, and it’s been hard to get people into the hall,” Deaville says.