I was hoping some of you nerds could help me out. The conductor of my orchestra mentioned a while back that he was interested in doing a concert of video game music. I was stoked, and offered as the nerdiest of nerds (and, well, probably the only gamer in the orchestra) to work on it. Then I started thinking about what to do. As awesome as Nobuo Uematsu is, and as popular as it probably would be, I kind of didn't want to do something that has been done so many times before. I also need to find something that isn't over-encumbered with performance rights, as getting big game companies to talk to little orchestras can be challenging (which is why I'm now in year 2 of this process).
So I think it would be awesome to do music from the Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky series. An added bonus is that Falcom is really generous with performance rights. But now I'm worried that the game series is too obscure, and that we will struggle to get an audience.
Is the game too out there? Will anyone come? Should I suck it up and do something more popular that's been done? I guess I'm just looking for people to bounce ideas off of that aren't going to look at me blankly when I say the title of a game.
